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This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel,
mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel -
whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until
relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider
world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether
initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade,
war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded
disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were
not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial
gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel
such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries,
printed from the late sixteenth century, and Prevost's Histoire
Generale des Voyages (1746-1759) underscored European exploration
as a marker of European progress, and in so doing showed the
tensions that can arise as a consequence of interaction with other
cultures. In focusing upon language acquisition and translation,
travel and religion, travel and politics, and imaginary travel, the
essays in this collection tease out the ways in which travel was
both obstructed and enriched by conflict.
This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel,
mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel -
whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until
relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider
world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether
initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade,
war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded
disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were
not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial
gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel
such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries,
printed from the late sixteenth century, and Prevost's Histoire
Generale des Voyages (1746-1759) underscored European exploration
as a marker of European progress, and in so doing showed the
tensions that can arise as a consequence of interaction with other
cultures. In focusing upon language acquisition and translation,
travel and religion, travel and politics, and imaginary travel, the
essays in this collection tease out the ways in which travel was
both obstructed and enriched by conflict.
A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in
eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should
travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider debate
about the social status quo. Early modern educational travel is
usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young nobleman's journey
through the established highlights of Europe. Lessons of Travel
presents how, in eighteenth-century France, this practice was
heavily contested, and the idea of educational travel had far wider
implications. Through the study of a huge range of both canonical
and little-known sources discussing "the art of travel", from abbe
Pluche's educational best seller, The Spectacle of Nature, through
Rousseau's Emile to practical prospectuses for collective
educational travel in the revolutionary period, Gelleri
investigates what it meant to 'think about travels' in
eighteenth-century France. Consideration of who should travel and
for what purpose, he argues, contributed to an international
intellectual tradition but also provided a pretext for debate on
the social status quo, including such issues as the place of the
merchant class, the necessity for professional training, the uses
of travel for young women and the education of a new generation of
citizens of the Revolution.
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