Selling the Spectre

Ghost Stories and Tourism in Modern Scotland

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ID15086507
AutoresMary Holmes (0000-0001-5217-713X, University of Aberdeen, autor de correspondencia), David Inglis (0000-0002-7654-072X, Institute of Sociology)
Año2004
Volumen8
Número2
Páginas107-123
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13645145.2004.9634955
OpenAlexW2006493984
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas12

For a long time, Scotland has been associated in the international imaginary with ghosts, ghouls and other forms of spectral phenomena. To a large extent, tourism has been responsible for the development of a set of images of Scotland which emphasise the mysterious and numinous aspects of the country's terrain. This paper traces out the ways in which tourism and the ghostly have been inextricably interwoven in Scotland over the last two hundred and fifty years. To this end the paper examines a number of literary forms, from poetry and novels through to tourist promotion literature in catalogues and websites, all of which are oriented around constructing a sense of Scotland as a land literally haunted by its past. The paper considers the historical development of these literary forms, the reasons for their genesis, and the often strange mutations they are undergoing in the present day

Ancient history · Archaeology · Tourism · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · History · Travel Writing and Literature

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