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The Legacy of the Grand Tour : New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611477986
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Legacy of the Grand TourDDC classification:
  • 910.409
LOC classification:
  • G151.L455 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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