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The legacy of the grand tour : new essays on travel, literature, and culture /
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The Grand Tour and its legacy / Lisa Colletta
- "Fog in the Channel" : joking, laughing, and traveling / Chloe Chard
- Ellis Cornelia Knight as artist, writer, and traveler in late eighteenth-century Italy / Clare Hornsby
- Violet Ida Chomley : "not the 'Grand Tour' but the 'downward path'" / Laura Olcelli
- Three British women travelers in Egypt : Sophia Lane Poole, Lucie Duff Gordon, and Emmeline Lott / Elisabetta Marino
- George Eliot on and off the beaten track : "Recollections" of Germany and Italy / Andrew Thompson
- D.H. Lawrence's anti-tour of Fascist Italy : Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan places / Judy Suh
- Postcolonial valediction : Durrell's Bitter lemons of Cyprus and the legacies of the Grand Tour / James Buzard
- Consuming Italy : from Goethe's Italian journey to Gilbert's Eat, pray, love / Shannon Russell
- Ripley's tour : the Grand Tour as confidence trick in The talented Mr. Ripley / Lisa Colletta
- See Rome-and die : legacies of the Grand Tour in a Roman cemetery / Nicholas Stanley-Price.