Pleasure and Guilt On the Grand Tour; Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830

by Chloe Chard

• ISBN13: 9780719048043
• ISBN10: 0719048044
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-09-11
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tourexamines the forms of language that map Italy and the warm south as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing from 1600 to 1830. The book considers the Tour with reference to strategies of description and commentary, narrative and thematic orderings and arguments and assumptions about how the encounter with the foreign should be managed. Traveler's descriptions of art and landscape are set within this wider context.

Author Biography

Chloe Chard has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tasmania.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vi
Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(39)
Opposition and intensification	40	(44)
Hyperbole and observation	84	(42)
Spectator and spectacle	126	(47)
The feminine and the antique	126	(30)
Pictorial viewing	156	(17)
Destabilized travel	173	(36)
Tourism	209	(40)
Bibliography	249	(17)
Index	266