The Legacy of the Grand Tour : New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture.
Colletta, Lisa.
The Legacy of the Grand Tour : New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Fog in the Channel" -- 2 Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy -- 3 Violet Ida Chomley -- 4 Three British Women Travelers in Egypt -- 5 George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track -- 6 D. H. Lawrence's Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy -- 7 Postcolonial Valediction -- 8 Consuming Italy -- 9 Ripley's Tour -- 10 See Rome-and Die -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This collection examines a wide variety of literature--travel, memoir, and fiction--and explores the ways travel and ideas of "culture" have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.
9781611477986
Grand tours (Education) - History.
Electronic books.
G151.L455 2015
910.409
The Legacy of the Grand Tour : New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Fog in the Channel" -- 2 Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy -- 3 Violet Ida Chomley -- 4 Three British Women Travelers in Egypt -- 5 George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track -- 6 D. H. Lawrence's Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy -- 7 Postcolonial Valediction -- 8 Consuming Italy -- 9 Ripley's Tour -- 10 See Rome-and Die -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This collection examines a wide variety of literature--travel, memoir, and fiction--and explores the ways travel and ideas of "culture" have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.
9781611477986
Grand tours (Education) - History.
Electronic books.
G151.L455 2015
910.409