Transports
Subtitle: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Studies in British Art)
Contributors: Chloe Chard (Editor); Helen Langdon (Editor)
Publisher: Paul Mellon Center BA
Published: November 27, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780300063820
Subjects: Classic travel writing; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Geographical discovery & exploration; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Other prose: 19th century; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern Art; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Travel in literature
Description: In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through to the early decades of the nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a crucial point of reference for travel and imaginative geography in general.