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

• Pubblicazione: Madison, [New Jersey] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 910.409
• Soggetto topico: Travel writing - History; Grand tours (Education) - History; Travel writers
• Persona (resp. second.): CollettaLisa
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The legacy of the grand tour
• ISBN: 1-61147-798-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797767003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II