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Transports - Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Hardcover)
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Transports - Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in British Art, 3
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In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors
from the fields of history, art history, literary history and
theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the
experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding and
representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning
of the seventeenth century through the early decades of the
nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a
crucial point of reference for travel and imaginative geography in
general. At the same time, concepts of pleasure and enjoyment
became entangled with visual and verbal representations of that
which was foreign. With chapters by Ken Arnold, Rosemary Bechler,
Richard Hamblyn, Roy Porter, E. S. Shaffer, Nicholas Thomas,
Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Wrigley, and the editors, Transports
discusses a range of original topics. These include narrative
orderings of travel; the classification of exotic objects; pastoral
and paradisal topography in the paintings of Claude Lorrain;
Beckford's invocations of China as he travels through Italy;
volcanoes in the discourses of travel and geology; the experience
of Rome; crossing boundaries and exceeding limits in travel and in
the sublime; liberty and license in New Zealand; foreigners'
responses to the high-velocity culture of London; and Byron's
sublime impulse beyond the established bounds of the Grand Tour.
Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
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