London in all its glory - Or how to enjoy London': Guidebook representations of imperial London

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-297

  Gilbert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TOURISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN AREA;

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EID: 0032868062     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhge.1999.0116     Document Type: Article

References (85)

1. W. Percy, The Empire Comes Home (London 1937) 13. The 'glory' of London was also the theme of a much earlier guidebook, published at the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, the title of which has been borrowed for this article.
2. See London in all its Glory; or how to enjoy London during the Great Exhibition (London 1851).
3. Percy, London in All Its Glory; or How to Enjoy London during the Great Exhibition, op. cit. 24.
4. Australian High Commission, The Australian's Guide Book (London 1924) 4.
5. D. MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York 1976).
6. See the discussion of tourism, anti-tourism and modernity in J. Buzard, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918 (Oxford 1993) 1-18.
7. The best example is Chicago after the fire of 1871 and particularly at the time of the World's Fair of 1893. In Chicago guides "the past did not exist". See J. Gilbert, Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893 (Chicago 1991) 63.
8. A. Potts, Picturing the modern metropolis: images of London in the nineteenth century, History Workshop Journal 26 (1988) 28-56.
9. Cook's Excursionist Magazine for 24 May 1862 published an article entitled "The Great Roar of London" encouraging tourists to experience the city. Quoted in Buzard, op. cit. 87.
10. See, for example, A. J. Burkart and S. Medlik, Tourism: Past, Present and Future (London 1979) 14-7;
11. J. Vaughan, The English Guide Book (Newton Abbot 1974) 64.
12. See Potts, op. cil.
13. D. Webb, For inns a hint, for routes a chart: the nineteenth-century London guidebook, London Journal 6 (1980) 207-14.
14. R. Barthes, The Blue Guide,
15. in Ibid.,
16. Mythologies (London 1972; first published in French in 1955) 74-7. The Blue Guides are Hachette's tourist handbooks. Like Murray and Baedeker, the Hachette company produced its first guides in the mid-nineteenth century.
17. See the discussion of Barthes' early realism in J. Duncan and N. Duncan, Ideology and bliss: Roland Barthes and the secret histories of landscape, in T. Barnes and J. Duncan (Eds.), Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape (London 1992).
18. P. Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars (Oxford 1982) 39.
19. J. Pemble, The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South (Oxford 1987) 265.
20. Buzard, op. cit. 75.
21. Ibid., 4.
22. See also I. Ousby, The Englishman's England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism (Cambridge 1990) 1-7.
23. J. Culler, The semiotics of tourism, in Framing the Sign: Criticism and its Institutions (Oklahoma 1989) 154.
24. Daniel Boorstin's best known comments on modernity, travel and tourism are D. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York 1973).
25. J. Taylor, A Dream of England: Landscape, Photography and the Tourist's Imagination (Manchester 1994) 135.
26. J. Urry, The Tourist Gaze (London 1990)
27. M. L. Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London 1992) 5.
28. T. Mitchell, Colonising Egypt (Cambridge 1988) 168.
29. Pratt, op. cil. 10.
30. Another was as a kind of pilgrimage through selected and interpreted sites of imperial sacrifice and triumph, as was found in Murray's Handbooks for India after the Mutiny. See J. MacKenzie, Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts (Manchester 1995) 205.
31. See A. Burton, Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London, History Workshop Journal 42 (1996) 127-46.
32. See, for example, the crude caricature of a Maori visitor in W. E. Hambley, How to 'Do' London in a Day (London 1926) 34.
33. C. Hancock, Les descriptions de l'espace urbain dans les guides touristiques de Paris et Londres au XIXeme siecle, Unpublished paper presented at a colloquium of International Group for the Study of Representations in Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, September 1996.
34. J. Weale (Ed.), London and Vicinity Exhibited in 1851 (London 1851) 1.
35. Routledge's Popular Guide to London and its Suburbs (London 1862) 1.
36. K. Baedeker, London and its Environs (Leipzig 1908) vi.
37. C. Redding, The Stranger in London; or Visitor's Companion to the Metropolis and its Environs (London 1851) 1.
38. F. Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (London 1892) 23.
39. Routledge's Jublilee Guide to London and its Suburbs (London 1887) 166.
40. Ibid., (London 1879 edition) 118.
41. Ibid., (London 1879 edition) 119.
42. C. Hodder, Through London by Omnibus, A Chatty Guide to the Principal Sights of London (London c. 1900) 63.
43. Mitchell, op. cil.
44. S. Daniels, Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States (Cambridge 1993) 31.
45. See the discussion of Indian travelogues in Burton op. cit.
46. 'Ludgate Hill. A block in the Street' in G. Dore and D. Jerrold London: A Pilgrimage (London 1872).
47. See F. Driver and D. Gilbert, Heart of empire? Landscape, space and performance in imperial London, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16 (1998) 11-28.
48. Manders, op. cit. 18.
49. Ward and Lock's Pictoral Guide to London (London 1882) 2.
50. New Zealand High Commission Handbook for New Zealand Visitors to London (London 1925) 10.
51. The changing moral geography of Victorian London is mapped in J. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (London 1992).
52. K. Baedeker, London and its Environs (Leipzig 1879 edition) 64-5.
53. See Hambley, op. cit. for an example both of the disparagement of local knowledge and an eulogy to the " standing encyclopedias" of the London police.
54. A. Light, Forever England: Feminity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars (London 1991)8.
55. A. Staines Manders, The Colonials' Guide to London (London 1917) 20.
56. Ibid.,
57. W. S. Campbell, The Overseas Soldier's Guide to London (London 1917).
58. F. Muirhead (Ed.), The Blue Guides: Muirhead's London and its Environs (London and Paris 1918) vi.
59. The Australian's Guide Book (London 1924) 32.
60. P. Cohen-Portheim, The Spirit of London (Sydney 1933) 64.
61. Percy, The Spirit of London, op. cit. 25.
62. Cohen-Portheim, The Spirit of London, op. cit. 65.
63. See for example Mica Nava's discussion of Selfridges' orientalism. See M. Nava, Modernity's disavowal: women, the city and the department store, in M. Nava and A. O'Shea (Eds), Modern Times: Reflections on a Century of English Modernity (London 1996).
64. D. H. Evans and Company Ltd, Handy Guide to London for use of American and Colonial Tourists (London 1902) 25.
65. For a detailed history of the earlier relationship between guides' representations of Paris and London, see Hancock, Handy Guide to London for Use of American and Colonial Tourists, op. cit.
66. Ward, Lock and Company, A Pictoral and Descriptive Guide to Paris (London 1898).
67. K. Beadeker, Berlin and its Environs (Leipzig and London 1903) 51.
68. J.-J. Reclus, Londres illustres: guide special pour l'Exposition de 1862 (Paris 1862) 64-5.
69. Quoted in Ward, Lock and Company, A Pictoral and Descriptive Guide to London and the British Empire Exhibition 1924 (London and Melbourne 1924) x.
70. C. Hodder, Through London by Omnibus: A Chatty Guide to the Principal Sights of London (London c. 1900).
71. Webb, Through London by Omnibus: A Chatty Guide to the Principal Sights of London, op. cit. 208.
72. Ward and Lock's Pictoral Guide to London (London 1917) 115;
73. Muirhead's London and its Environs (London 1917) 106;
74. Cook's Handbook to London (London 1921) 104.
75. Langham Hotel Guide to London (London 1913) 178.
76. Weale, Langham Hotel Guide to London, op. cit.;
77. Webb, Langham Hotel Guide to London, op. cit. 208.
78. Webb, Langham Hotel Guide to London, op. cit. 210.
79. D. Ryan, Staging the imperial city: the Pageant of London 1911, in F. Driver and D. Gilbert (Eds), Imperial Cities. Landscape, Display and Identity (Manchester 1999).
80. See, for example, D. Home, The Great Museum (London 1984).
81. Pullman Car Company, London The Wonder City (n.p. 1937) 21.
82. D. Home, London the Wonder City, Ibid., 15, 17.
83. Homeland Association, The Homeland Festival of Britain Guide to London (London 1951).
84. The current market-leaders of this type of guide are London: The Rough Guide (London 1997)
85. and The Time Out London Guide (London 1997).