Chloe Chard is a writer who lives and works in London. She has spent time as a Fellow or Scholar at numerous research institutes and universities in Europe, America and Australasia.

To call a book about the Grand Tour 'Tristes Plaisirs' shows originality. Usually, the dissipaions of the Society of Dilettanti and other milordi are characterised as a rollicking, aristocratic equivalent of a gap year, but the travellers' accounts anthologised in this book show that pleasure seeking could also be a serious affair.'Not only is this book as well researched as one would expect from its scholarly authors, but it is also lavishly illustrated to illuminate the points they make: a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves.

• PrefaceIntroductionI: Triste plaisirII: The tropes of travel: how to avoid languor in language1. PleasureI: The foreign and the familiarII: Tourism: the management of pleasure2. Rising and sinking in sublime places3. Danger and destabilizationI: Indolent delicious reverieII: Disease, debilitation and delusions of revivalIII: Banditti4. Art, unease and lifeI: Odd spectatorsII: Sculpture studios; socializing with works of art5. Gastronomy, gusto and the geography of the haunted Bibliography

Chloe Chard is a writer who lives and works in London. She has spent time as a Fellow or Scholar at numerous research institutes and universities in Europe, America and Australasia.

To call a book about the Grand Tour 'Tristes Plaisirs' shows originality. Usually, the dissipaions of the Society of Dilettanti and other milordi are characterised as a rollicking, aristocratic equivalent of a gap year, but the travellers' accounts anthologised in this book show that pleasure seeking could also be a serious affair.'Not only is this book as well researched as one would expect from its scholarly authors, but it is also lavishly illustrated to illuminate the points they make: a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves.

• PrefaceIntroductionI: Triste plaisirII: The tropes of travel: how to avoid languor in language1. PleasureI: The foreign and the familiarII: Tourism: the management of pleasure2. Rising and sinking in sublime places3. Danger and destabilizationI: Indolent delicious reverieII: Disease, debilitation and delusions of revivalIII: Banditti4. Art, unease and lifeI: Odd spectatorsII: Sculpture studios; socializing with works of art5. Gastronomy, gusto and the geography of the haunted Bibliography

Chloe Chard is a writer who lives and works in London. She has spent time as a Fellow or Scholar at numerous research institutes and universities in Europe, America and Australasia.

To call a book about the Grand Tour 'Tristes Plaisirs' shows originality. Usually, the dissipaions of the Society of Dilettanti and other milordi are characterised as a rollicking, aristocratic equivalent of a gap year, but the travellers' accounts anthologised in this book show that pleasure seeking could also be a serious affair.'Not only is this book as well researched as one would expect from its scholarly authors, but it is also lavishly illustrated to illuminate the points they make: a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves.

• PrefaceIntroductionI: Triste plaisirII: The tropes of travel: how to avoid languor in language1. PleasureI: The foreign and the familiarII: Tourism: the management of pleasure2. Rising and sinking in sublime places3. Danger and destabilizationI: Indolent delicious reverieII: Disease, debilitation and delusions of revivalIII: Banditti4. Art, unease and lifeI: Odd spectatorsII: Sculpture studios; socializing with works of art5. Gastronomy, gusto and the geography of the haunted Bibliography