The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Black, Jeremy

 
9780415609760: The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415609763 ISBN 13: 9780415609760
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour.

The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.

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Jeremy Black

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415609763
ISBN 13 
9780415609760
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288

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