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Pleasure and guilt on the grand tour : travel writing and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
By: Chard, Chloe
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Publisher: Manchester [England] ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999Description: ix, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0719048044 (hbk.); 9780719048043:; 0719048052 (pbk.); 0719046052 (paperback).Subject(s): Travel writing -- History | Travel writing -- History and criticism | Travelers' writings -- History and criticism | Travel etiquette in literature | Europe -- Description and travel | Europe, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | Europe, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 808.06691 Summary: This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index.
This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.