The Legacy of the Grand Tour
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The Legacy of the Grand Tour

New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture

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eBook - ePub

The Legacy of the Grand Tour

New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture

About this book

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its aristocratic origins and the permutations of sentimental and romantic travel to the age of tourism and globalization, the Grand Tour still influences the destinations tourists choose and shapes the ideas of culture and sophistication that surround the act of travel. The essays in this collection examine a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explore the ways travel and ideas of "culture" have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour in the 18th century. 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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. ā€œFog in the Channelā€
  5. Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy
  6. Violet Ida Chomley
  7. Three British Women Travelers in Egypt
  8. George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track
  9. D. H. Lawrence’s Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy
  10. Postcolonial Valediction
  11. Consuming Italy
  12. Ripley’s Tour
  13. See Rome—and Die
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Contributors