![]() Julian Barnes's darkly satiric new novel England, England projects this trend into a not-so-distant (but definitely post-Elizabeth II) future, when a corporate mogul, Sir Jack Pitman, decides to construct a quintessence-of-English site that will put facsimiles of all the major tourist attractions (identified of course through polling and focus groups) into one convenient location, located on what is now the Isle of Wight. ![]() European critics contended that a tourist Mecca like Venice seemed in danger of becoming less a living city than a theme park by the sea subsequently, the establishment of EuroDisney came to represent a triumph of the faux. In his book's third chapter, Boorstin proposed that traditional travel and exploration had been supplanted by tourism, with its emphasis on commercial exploitation, packaging, uniformity, and standardization. Boorstin in The Image (1962) described the growing displacement of "authentic" aspects of culture and its postmodern replacement by the "image," the replica, the "pseudo-event," and the inauthentic. Long before Jean Baudrillard expounded the prevalence of simulacra in the postmodern world, Daniel J. ![]() ![]() ![]() MLA style: "England, England." The Free Library. ![]()
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