Tintagel and the picturesque ideal: exploring identity and the rise of domestic tourism
Victoria’s talk will micro-analyses how a well-known tourist destination in Cornwall can be understood as a product of travel literature during the rising popularity of the Picturesque movement. She uses this study to gain further insight into the ‘travelling’ mentality that not only exploited Tintagel’s maritime identity, but usurped it as part of the ‘British Grand Tour’.
About Victoria Jenner
Following a Master’s Degree in eighteenth-century British and French Decorative Arts, Victoria Jenner has specialised in nineteenth-century collections with the National Trust. During this time, she has worked as a digital curator for Waddesdon Manor, a Rothschild House and Garden in Buckinghamshire, P&D Colnaghi, a historic dealers in London and currently for the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.
Victoria’s mentorship role within the Cornwall’s Maritime Churches project (2018 – 2021), brought together her passion for digital engagement as well as her interest in the nineteenth century as a period of social change that dramatically impacted the architecture, design and identities of churches across Cornwall. Her talk here micro-analyses how a well-known tourist destination in Cornwall can be understood as a product of travel literature during the rising popularity of the Picturesque movement. She uses this study to gain further insight into the ‘travelling’ mentality that not only exploited Tintagel’s maritime identity, but usurped it as part of the ‘British Grand Tour’.
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