Dr Alan McNee

Dr McNee is researching tourism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published two books. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps: Albert Smith and the Ascent of Mont Blanc is a biography of the journalist, travel writer, and theatrical impresario Albert Smith. The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain: Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime is a study of nineteenth century mountaineering literature and its relation to fin de siècle science and culture. His current research focusses on hotel guest books and visitors’ books, and during his fellowship he has published articles in the journals Studies in Travel Writing, Cahiers d’Agora, and Cahiers victoriens et édourdiens, as well as in History Today magazine. He has a forthcoming paper in the journal Immigrants and Minorities.