Travellers in Eighteenth Century Europe

The Sexes Abroad

Julie Peakman

• Publisher: Pen and Sword
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781399049627
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions byleading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture. The Grand Tour was considered a part of the education of a young gentleman. Travellers includedblossoming scholars, poets, writers and scientists. Visits were made toGreece and Italy via France and Switzerland, often taking in Turkey. But women also traveled extensively, though these accounts have been under-explored.The book will examine first-hand accounts ofthe impact of foreign travel on both women and men, seen through their letters, travel diaries, journals and their creative response in poems, music and art.Its originality is seen in its exploration of a comparison between the views of women and men abroad and the differences in what they deemed interesting and worthy of comment.The book is especially relevant in light ofthe many past (and current) xenophobic views of the 'foreigner';Here, we more often see travellers viewing their experienceof 'otherness' and exoticism, in a positive light, acultural appreciation rather than a cultural appropriation.This book examines how men and women saw these new worlds opening up before them;what delighted them, what influenced them, and their interaction with othersin the light of domesticity, antiquity, politics, work, science, sex, and friendships.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Lascivious Travelling: Sex, Religion and Antiquarians in the Eighteenth Century Julie Peakman
• Chapter 2 ‘She set out with all the pleasure imaginable.’ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Travels Jo Willett C Julie Peakman
• Chapter 3 Thomas Gray on Tour: New Views on Much-Known Lands Maria Grazia Dongu
• Chapter 4 John MacDonald: A Travelling Servant’s Life of Cultural Exchange Sophie Dunn
• Chapter 5 ‘In the Character of a Corsican’: Mediating Chieftain Masculinity in James Boswell’s Account of Corsica (1768) Shirley F. Tung
• Chapter 6 ‘A stranger in this country’: British Singers, Travel, and Education Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
• Chapter 7 ‘Auch ich in Arkadien!’ Michał Jan Borch’s Travels to Italy Teresa Rączka-Jeziorska
• Chapter 8 Through an Exile’s Eyes: Touring Switzerland with Helen Maria Williams Louise Duckling
• Chapter 9 ‘I cannot yet give up the hope’: Mary Wollstonecraft and Observations on European Travel Mina Tsai-Yeh Wang
• Chapter 10 Women’s Labour in Maria Graham’s Three Months Passed in The Mountains East of Rome (1820) Valentina Aparicio
• Chapter 11 Travels through post-Napoleonic Europe: Harriet Elizabeth Parry’s trip to France, Switzerland and Italy, (1819) Miriam Al Jamil
• Chapter 12 ‘She won’t give up her unlawful love (myself )’: Byron’s tales of Italian adultery Emily Paterson Morgan
• Chapter 13 ‘I maintained my opinion – like a woman, and an obstinate one too’: The Countess of Blessington, the Female Nude, and a Woman’s Right to Gaze Eleanor Reynolds
• Notes
• Bibliography