Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2044515
S. Matthews
ABSTRACT Victorian commentators identified visitors’ books with mass tourism and disparaged their contents as banal and absurd. However, a historicised approach shows that inscription conventions and commentators’ expectations were influenced by the print mediation of earlier practices centred on blank books, notably poetry composed for British country house albums. This article demonstrates how album poetry published in the late eighteenth century shaped later practice in, and reception of, visitors’ books. An artform which could elevate the album beyond recording fleeting encounters with places and persons, album poetry shows writers deploying literary strategies to construct a guest–host dynamic which navigates between the familiar and formal, and between hospitality and payment. Album poetry establishes a complimentary rhetoric and fantasy of hospitality and belonging that sets an unrealistic model for Victorian contributions to visitors’ books in public and commercial settings.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2092319
K. James, P. Vincent
It is customary to begin introductions such as these with remarks underscoring the relative newness of research in the field. Thatmay be the case here, though the argument in favour of this collection is as much that it brings together scholars who have beenworking on discrete projects centred on a specific source set – one whose value has often primarily been understood in terms of the nominal information it yields about travel markets. Broadly speaking, the contributions in this issue explore the visitors’ books’ relationship to other texts, contemporaneous and historical, manuscript and print; their role in record-linkage; and their communicative functions amongst a range of users. All articles underscore that these sources have real research value; by asserting their value as forms of travel writing in particular, the authors argue in favour of materials that might otherwise be regarded with the same curiosity and dismissiveness that attended evaluations of the sources in the nineteenth century. Initial interest in the books for the systematic exploration of the geographic compass of the client market has given way, as this issue attests, to examinations of these sources as literary and cultural artefacts. The books tell us a great deal about technologies of transport, as several contributions to this issue underline, but also of the book itself as a technology – as an instrument for organising and communicating data, and not merely narrowly-defined nominal data. Perhaps themost obvious comment tomakeon these sources is that their survival is largely serendipitous: the articles that follow explore visitors’ books held in local museums, private establishments, libraries, county archives and other record repositories. Others were privately acquired and are held outside public archives and institutions. Perhaps more than anything this has nourished assessments of their ephemeral character – a stance which, until the embrace of ephemera as the basis for serious scholarly inquiry, left them to languish with the other “fragmentary documents of everyday life”, to borrowMaurice Rickard’s terminology (2000). Adding to their ambiguous status as James andNorthey note in this volume, and as all contributions here underline, is the diversity of material structures that the “visitors’ book” encompassed, to say nothing of related nomenclature, from French “livres d’or”, “registres des arrivées” and “livres des étrangers” to German “Fremdenbücher” and many other similar variations. Serving in places as an album, elsewhere as a register, often as both at once, the artefact is difficult to define, and its genealogies remain largely apocryphal. To understand the evolution of the visitors’ book’s value as an historical source, it is important to recognise how it was configured within meta-narratives that explicated
按照惯例，在这样的介绍开始时，要强调该领域研究的相对新颖性。这里的情况可能是这样的，尽管支持这一集合的论点是，它将一直致力于以特定来源集为中心的离散项目的学者聚集在一起，而这些来源集的价值通常主要是根据它产生的关于旅游市场的名义信息来理解的。从广义上讲，本期的贡献探讨了访客书籍与其他文本、同期与历史、手稿与印刷品的关系；它们在记录链接中的作用；以及它们在一系列用户之间的交流功能。所有文章都强调，这些来源具有真正的研究价值；通过特别强调它们作为旅行写作形式的价值，作者们主张使用那些可能会被视为与19世纪对来源的评估一样好奇和不屑一顾的材料。正如本期所证明的那样，最初对系统探索客户市场地理罗盘的书籍的兴趣已经让位于对这些来源作为文学和文化艺术品的研究。正如对这一问题的几项贡献所强调的那样，这些书告诉了我们很多关于运输技术的内容，但也告诉了我们这本书本身是一种技术——一种组织和交流数据的工具，而不仅仅是狭义的名义数据。也许对这些来源最明显的评论是，它们的生存在很大程度上是偶然的：下面的文章探讨了当地博物馆、私人机构、图书馆、县档案馆和其他记录库中的游客书籍。其他则是私人收购的，存放在公共档案馆和机构之外。也许最重要的是，这滋养了对他们短暂性的评估——根据莫里斯·里卡德（Maurice Rickard）的术语（2000），这种立场直到将短暂性作为严肃学术研究的基础，才让他们与其他“日常生活的零碎文件”一起备受煎熬。正如詹姆斯和诺西在本卷中所指出的，以及这里所有的贡献所强调的那样，“访客之书”所包含的物质结构的多样性，更不用说相关的命名法了，从法语“livres d'or”，“registres des arrivées”和“livres desétrangers”到德语“Fremdenbücher”和许多其他类似的变体。在一些地方作为专辑，在其他地方作为登记册，通常同时作为两者，这件艺术品很难定义，其家谱在很大程度上仍然是伪造的。为了理解访客书籍作为历史来源的价值演变，重要的是要认识到它是如何在元叙事中配置的
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2066604
Jérémie Magnin
ABSTRACT When Murray’s first Swiss guidebook came out in 1838, its section dedicated to the Rigi-Kulm, one of the most popular sites of a Swiss tour at the time, summarised existing information about the summit and its inn, giving a detailed description of what tourists could expect. It noted that the Rigi-Kulm Inn was one of three places in Switzerland known for its visitors’ books, and included a poem, allegedly quoted from the inn album, which subsequently gained its own fame by circulating in print. This article attempts to understand the role of the visitors’ book by highlighting the intertextuality between the entries in the visitors’ books, the guidebooks and the travelogues, and by discussing how these prefiguring texts influenced British tourists in their quest for authenticity at the Rigi-Kulm.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2045076
P. Vincent
ABSTRACT A dense network of registers and albums existed in Chamonix, making it one of the most exemplary sites of nineteenth-century visitors’ book culture. A significant number of these books have survived, enabling us to better understand the functions they served, and how they fit into the wider history of Chamonix’s development. This was among other things a history of ordering, as the article shows in regard to the valley’s historiography and to the development of its infrastructure. Focusing on travelogues and on several visitors’ books and registers, the article examines how these books participated in these ordering processes.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2068295
Johnette Brewer
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a surviving visitors’ book that covers the years 1826–1828, kept at the Hermitage on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. The article sets out both its value and limitations as a historical source, contrasting it with the more fully developed personal narrative typical of travel literature, and argues that its (and other visitors’ books) supposed limitations (their anecdotal and fragmentary character) may also be a strength. Such books express and capture an experience of travel that is collective and social, and reveal a body of travellers (not authors) that is both more numerous and varied than in single-author accounts. The article’s final remarks frame the relationship between this visitors’ book and travel literature as a collision between the literary forms of the anecdote and the narrative.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2057387
Isla H. Macfarlane
ABSTRACT The Library of Innerpeffray, in rural Perthshire, is the oldest free public lending library in Scotland and contains unique manuscript records which are invaluable resources for the fields of library and tourism history. This article argues that two key developments contributed to Innerpeffray’s transformation from a lending library into a reference library and visitor attraction: the impact of one of the library’s patrons, Robert Hay Drummond, and the growth of tourism in mid-nineteenth-century Perthshire, within the wider development of Scottish tourism. Two sources are explored for the first time: annual reports sent to the Governors of Innerpeffray between 1891–1904 by the then-Keeper of Books, Mrs Christian Birnie; and the first volume of the library’s visitors’ books, which contains visitor details from 1859-97. The article presents some preliminary findings about inscribed locations, gender, and repeat visitors to emphasise the value of visitors’ books which primarily contain visitor details without additional commentary.
内珀弗雷图书馆位于伯思郡的乡村，是苏格兰最古老的免费公共借阅图书馆，拥有独特的手稿记录，是图书馆和旅游历史领域的宝贵资源。本文认为，有两个关键的发展促成了Innerpeffray从借阅图书馆转变为参考图书馆和游客吸引力:图书馆的一位赞助人Robert Hay Drummond的影响，以及19世纪中期佩思郡旅游业的增长，在苏格兰旅游业的更广泛发展中。本文首次探讨了两种资料来源:1891年至1904年间，时任图书管理员克里斯蒂安·伯尼夫人(Mrs Christian Birnie)向内珀弗雷州长提交的年度报告;还有图书馆访客记录的第一卷，里面有1859年到1897年间访客的详细信息。本文介绍了一些关于铭文位置、性别和回头客的初步发现，以强调访客书籍的价值，这些书籍主要包含访客详细信息，没有额外的评论。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2045966
Alan Mcnee
ABSTRACT The last two decades of the nineteenth century were a boom period for cycling, not only in Britain but also on Continental Europe and in the United States. Cycling was cheap, accessible and democratic, and the proliferation of cycling clubs made it a sociable sport for all classes and genders. Part of this social aspect of cycling involved weekend stops at popular country pubs and inns, some of which became semi-official headquarters for various clubs. This article examines the visitors’ books of three such pubs in the south of England and suggests that inscriptions in them provide an insight into the values and attitudes of recreational cyclists. It uses Benedict Anderson’s notion of the “imagined community” as a template for understanding how a diverse group of individuals visiting the same location at different times could forge a thriving virtual subculture via visitors’ books and guest books.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2086581
Chaim Noy
ABSTRACT This article theorises historical comment books and related travel-writing sources. It offers a conceptual framework for reading disparate sources produced by travellers and tourists during and as part of travel and visitation. An interdisciplinary framework is promoted, conjoining travel and tourism studies, medium theory, communication sensibilities, and anthropology of writing. By attuning to the practices, materialities, and mobilities that comment books generate and embody, this study details six analytical hypotheses. These hypotheses address the indexical value of comment books as on-site media, their institutional nature, the heterogeneous literacies, narratives, and chronotopes performed in and through them, and the texts’ addressivities. The article seeks to illuminate the richness, complexity, and significance of these sources, and of the travel practices they stimulate. More than records or capsules of historical voices and discourses, as travel-writing artefacts comment books are stimulating to “think with” about the historical, sociocultural, and political processes they index.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2084009
M. Heafford
ABSTRACT The experience of travellers has usually been explored through their own journals, diaries and letters. Here, focusing on British travellers on the Continent in the early nineteenth century, a different approach is adopted: using registers, and other similar sources, in which individuals are named, allows us to list large numbers of travellers at various points of their journey. The resulting data enables us to build up an objective picture of the whole travelling cohort, to estimate overall numbers generally, and to assess the relative popularity of particular destinations. Combining details about individuals may enable us to get beyond a name to an identification, and perceive patterns in individual itineraries. Knowing the location of named travellers on a particular day may reveal the identities of their travelling companions, enable a name to be attributed to an anonymous travel journal, and confirm or refute biographical information derived from other sources.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2063102
Rita Singer
ABSTRACT Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good services. The participatory nature of these albums encouraged inscribers not only to provide factual reviews, but also to compose occasional poetry, humorous vignettes of a day’s travel or satirical character sketches of fellow travellers and locals. The Snowdon visitors’ books evidence travellers’ expectations and experiences of ascending the highest mountain in Wales. In the study of nineteenth-century travel writing, messages particularly by non-professional writers reveal how the quality of professional tour guides, commercial infrastructure, the weather and the food sold in the huts shaped the overall experience of Snowdon as a touristic highlight or disappointment.
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