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A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour - Tristes Plaisirs (Paperback)
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A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour - Tristes Plaisirs (Paperback)
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Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late
eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel
in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some
cases, translated into English at the time); 'Tristes Plaisirs'
includes writings by Charles Dupaty, Maria Graham, Anna Jameson,
Sydney Morgan, Henry Matthews and Hester Lynch Piozzi. The extracts
often focus on the labile moods that contribute to the 'triste
plaisir' of travelling (as Madame de Stael termed it): moods such
as restlessness, anxiety, exhaustion, animal exuberance, sexual
excitement and piqued curiosity. The introduction considers some of
these responses in relation to the preoccupations and rhetorical
strategies of travel writing during the Romantic period and
introductory commentaries examine the ways in which the passages
take up a series of themes, around which the five chapters are
ordered: 'Pleasure', 'Rising and sinking in sublime places',
'Danger and destabilization', 'Art, unease and life', and
'Gastronomy, Gusto and the Geography of the Haunted'. -- .
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