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Cities and the Grand Tour - The British in Italy, c.1690-1820 (Paperback)
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Cities and the Grand Tour - The British in Italy, c.1690-1820 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and
represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the
Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses
of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice,
during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a
wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts
written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature
helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the
different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these
cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these
cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More
broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of
personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural
values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic,
which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture
and the transition to modernity.
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