Cities and the grand tour : the British in Italy, c.1690-1820 / Rosemary Sweet.

Main entry:

Sweet, Rosemary.

Title & Author:

Cities and the grand tour : the British in Italy, c.1690-1820 / Rosemary Sweet.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
©2012

Description:

xii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge social and cultural histories ; no. 19

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-321) and index.
1. Experiencing the Grand Tour -- 2. Florence: a home from home; 3. Rome ancient and modern -- 4. Naples: leisure, pleasure and a frisson of danger -- 5. Venice: a place of singularity and spectacle -- 6. Medievalism and the Grand Tour -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Summary:

"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 Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what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"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9781107020504 (hardback)
1107020506 (hardback)
9781107529205 (paperback)
1107529204 (paperback)

Subject:

British Travel Italy History 18th century.
Travelers Great Britain 18th century.
Travelers' writings, British 18th century.
British Travel Europe History 18th century.
Britanniques Voyages Italie Histoire 18e siècle.
Voyageurs Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Britanniques Voyages Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
15.70 history of Europe.
74.19 geography of Europe.
HISTORY Europe General.
British Travel.
Travel.
Travelers.
Travelers' writings, British.
Travelers Great Britain History 18th century.
Britter historia.
Engelska reseskildringar historia.
Resor.
Italy Description and travel.
Italien.
Italie Descriptions et voyages.
Europe.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Engeland.
Italië.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283986
Call No.: BIB 222528
Status: Available

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