Lessons of travel in eighteenth-century France : from Grand Tour to school trips /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gelléri, Gábor, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press published in association with BSECS, 2020.
Series:Studies in the eighteenth century.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Voyages and travels.
Voyages.
journeys.
Intellectual life.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on reading arts of travel
  • Defining the Grand Tour
  • From touring to training : the case of diplomacy 1680-1830
  • Trading with men, dealing with God : abbé Pluche's ideas on travel
  • Travelling on a Moebius strip : Émile's travels
  • The end of an era? : the prize contest of the Academy of Lyon (1785-87)
  • Inventing school trips? : revolutionary programmes of collective educational travel

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