Reviews
''Elegant' is the epithet that recurs in tributes to this fascinating book. It seems both apposite and misleading. Exact, in the scientist's sense of powerful economy: a thesis which accounts satisfactorily for its data. Inadequate, however, to James Buzard's impressive range. His title barelyindicates the scope of this work.'RES New Series XLVI 184, ''The Beaten Track' is the best book I know that deals with the phenomenon in nineteenth-century Britain and America. ... This is a book that everyone interested in ninetheenth-century and modern British and American culture should read.'Patrick Brantlinger, Professor of English, Indiana University''The Beaten Track is rich in historical detail and literary quotation, with provoking speculations on "gendered geography", capitalism and leisure, and political anxieties about crowds.'Times Higher Education Supplement'As literary and cultural history the book is a rich offering ... this is a scholarly and creative book which has something to say to social historians.'Anthony Sutcliffe, University of Leicester, Social History Society Bulletin, Autumn 1993'His book amply illustrates the important role of literature in structuring and interpreting - in an endless circle of influence - the world of the nineteenth-century tourist.'Patricia Jasen, Lakehead University, Victorian Review, Winter 1993, Vol. 19, No. 2'James Buzard provides a thorough and searching analysis of the cultural implications of the expansion of European travel during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Buzard is concerned not just to record the huge growth in nineteenth-century tourism, but to examine how this important development in the experience of more and more people carried after it sociocultural consequences.'Byron Journal '94''Elegant' is the epithet that recurs in tributes to this fascinating book. It seems both apposite and misleading. Exact, in the scientist's sense of powerful economy: a thesis which accounts satisfactorily for its data. Inadequate, however, to James Buzard's impressive range. His title barely indicates the scope of this work.'RES New Series XLVI 184, ''The Beaten Track is rich in historical detail and literary quotation, with provoking speculations on "gendered geography", capitalism and leisure, and political anxieties about crowds.'Times Higher Education Supplement, 'James Buzard provides a thorough and searching analysis of the cultural implications of the expansion of European travel during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Buzard is concerned not just to record the huge growth in nineteenth-century tourism, but to examine how thisimportant development in the experience of more and more people carried after it sociocultural consequences.'Byron Journal '94, 'His book amply illustrates the important role of literature in structuring and interpreting - in an endless circle of influence - the world of the nineteenth-century tourist.'Patricia Jasen, Lakehead University, Victorian Review, Winter 1993, Vol. 19, No. 2, "An entirely satisfying scholarly work. It is written in clean and clear prose, even though Buzard take up theoretical issues that many others immobilize with jargon....The book is not only an important contribution to research on the phenomenon of travel for pleasure, but is also a significant exploration of an intriguing feature of nineteenth-century culture."-- Nineteenth-Century Studies "[An] important book....Buzard has done ground-breaking work."-- Choice "Fluently written, wide-ranging and meticulous in its accumulation of detail, The Beaten Track is an exemplary piece of scholarship."-- Times Literary Supplement "[Buzard's] tour of this newest and most entrancing of scholarly terrains is a veritable Baedeker in its fusion of the exhaustive and the urbane."-- The Observer "James Buzard's The Beaten Track is not only an elegant exposition of the ways in which tourism has paradoxically fostered and exploited a rhetoric of anti-tourism, but also a splendid exploration of the links between tourism, textual mediation, and literature. Moreover, its prose has such a high finish that it's a great pleasure to read."--Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley, "An entirely satisfying scholarly work. It is written in clean and clear prose, even though Buzard take up theoretical issues that many others immobilize with jargon....The book is not only an important contribution to research on the phenomenon of travel for pleasure, but is also a significant exploration of an intriguing feature of nineteenth-century culture."--Nineteenth-Century Studies "[An] important book....Buzard has done ground-breaking work."--Choice "Fluently written, wide-ranging and meticulous in its accumulation of detail, The Beaten Track is an exemplary piece of scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement "[Buzard's] tour of this newest and most entrancing of scholarly terrains is a veritable Baedeker in its fusion of the exhaustive and the urbane."--The Observer "James Buzard's The Beaten Track is not only an elegant exposition of the ways in which tourism has paradoxically fostered and exploited a rhetoric of anti-tourism, but also a splendid exploration of the links between tourism, textual mediation, and literature. Moreover, its prose has such a high finish that it's a great pleasure to read."--Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley, 'As literary and cultural history the book is a rich offering ... this is a scholarly and creative book which has something to say to social historians.'Anthony Sutcliffe, University of Leicester, Social History Society Bulletin, Autumn 1993, "An entirely satisfying scholarly work. It is written in clean and clear prose, even though Buzard take up theoretical issues that many others immobilize with jargon....The book is not only an important contribution to research on the phenomenon of travel for pleasure, but is also a significant exploration of an intriguing feature of nineteenth-century culture."--Nineteenth-Century Studies"[An] important book....Buzard has done ground-breaking work."--Choice"Fluently written, wide-ranging and meticulous in its accumulation of detail, The Beaten Track is an exemplary piece of scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement"[Buzard's] tour of this newest and most entrancing of scholarly terrains is a veritable Baedeker in its fusion of the exhaustive and the urbane."--The Observer"James Buzard's The Beaten Track is not only an elegant exposition of the ways in which tourism has paradoxically fostered and exploited a rhetoric of anti-tourism, but also a splendid exploration of the links between tourism, textual mediation, and literature. Moreover, its prose has such a high finish that it's a great pleasure to read."--Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley, ''The Beaten Track' is the best book I know that deals with the phenomenon in nineteenth-century Britain and America. ... This is a book that everyone interested in ninetheenth-century and modern British and American culture should read.'Patrick Brantlinger, Professor of English, Indiana University
