Introduction
1. Wordsworth and Railways
2. The Railway Controversy in Wordsworth's Lake District
3. The Arrival of Motorcars
4. Romantic Motorists, Romantic Cyclists
5. The First World War and the Lake District
6. Post-War Motoring in the Lake District, 1920s-30s
7. Wordsworthian Tourism in the Interwar Period
Epilogue: 'Access for All'
Saeko Yoshikawa is a professor in the Department of English Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
‘For its rigorous research and elucidation of the impact of
transport upon the evolving experience of landscape and tourism
from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century,
Yoshikawa’s work offers both an insightful and significant
contribution to current scholarship.’
Jules Gehrke, Journal of British Studies
'Yoshikawa’s archival work, as ever, is outstanding, and her claims
are generally so well grounded as to seem almost obvious once the
evidence is presented ... Yoshikawa’s book allowed us to take
imaginative journeys while marking advancements in the thriving
subdisciplines of Romantic literary geography.'
Paul Westover, The Wordsworth Circle
‘Saeko Yoshikawa in her new William Wordsworth and Modern Travel:
Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830–1940 includes
chapters… with an abundance of fascinating information, anecdotes,
and illustrations.’ Eric C. Walker, European Romantic Review
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