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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797767003321

Titolo

The legacy of the grand tour : new essays on travel, literature, and culture / / edited by Lisa Colletta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [New Jersey] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-798-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

910.409

Soggetti

Travel writing - History

Grand tours (Education) - History

Travel writers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; "Fog in the Channel"; Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy; Violet Ida Chomley; Three British Women Travelers in Egypt; George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track; D. H. Lawrence's Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy; Postcolonial Valediction; Consuming Italy; Ripley's Tour; See Rome-and Die; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.