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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785620703321

Autore

Young Patrick <1967-, >

Titolo

Enacting Brittany : tourism and culture in provincial France, 1871-1939 / / Patrick Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-14406-6

1-315-57942-1

1-283-57265-6

9786613885104

0-7546-9656-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/8190944109041

Soggetti

Heritage tourism - France - Brittany - History

Tourism - Social aspects - France - Brittany

Bretons - Ethnic identity

National characteristics, Breton

Regionalism - France - Brittany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Ashgate Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From romance to patrimony : Breton culture and originality in the nineteenth century tourism, culture and place in a changing Brittany, 1860-1914 -- La Bretagne, au sein de son passé : dilemmas of tourist modernity in the French countryside -- Refashioning Breton costume -- Of pardons, loss and longing : Breton religious processions in an age of tourism and cultural change -- A tasteful patrimony : landscape preservation and tourism in Brittany -- From terre du passé to modern leisure ground? : Brittany in an age of mass tourism -- Epilogue : changing contexts of Bretonnitude, from Vichy to European Union and globalization.

Sommario/riassunto

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This book explores the means by which key actors - middle



class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will