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

By: Sweet, RosemarySeries: Cambridge social and cultural historiesDescription: xii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781107020504 (hbk.) :; 1107020506 (hbk.) :Subject(s): British -- Travel -- Italy -- History -- 18th century | Travelers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Travelers' writings, British -- 18th century | British -- Travel -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | HISTORY / Europe / General | Italy -- Description and travelDDC classification: 914.5047 LOC classification: DG425 | .S94 2012Online resources: Cover image | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 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 Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what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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Item type	Current library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reservations
Book-Circulating	Fischer Hall Library Main shelves	DG425. S94 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B006877

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-321) and index.

"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.