A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 288
Utgivningsdatum: 2014-02-06
Förlag: Manchester University Press
Illustrationer: Illustrations, black & white
Dimensioner: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
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ISBN: 9780719044991

A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour

Name: A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour
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Author: Chloe Chard
ISBN: 9780719044991

Tristes Plaisirs

av Chloe Chard

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-02-06

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Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some cases, translated into English at the time); 'Tristes Plaisirs' includes writings by Charles Dupaty, Maria Graham, Anna Jameson, Sydney Morgan, Henry Matthews and Hester Lynch Piozzi. The extracts often focus on the labile moods that contribute to the triste plaisir of travelling (as Madame de Stal termed it): moods such as restlessness, anxiety, exhaustion, animal exuberance, sexual excitement and piqued curiosity. The introduction considers some of these responses in relation to the preoccupations and rhetorical strategies of travel writing during the Romantic period and introductory commentaries examine the ways in which the passages take up a series of themes, around which the five chapters are ordered: Pleasure, Rising and sinking in sublime places, Danger and destabilization, Art, unease and life, and Gastronomy, Gusto and the Geography of the Haunted. -- .

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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 lso lavishly illustrated to illuminate the points they make: a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white drawings and photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves. -- .

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. -- .

Preface Introduction I: Triste plaisir II: The tropes of travel: how to avoid languor in language 1. Pleasure I: The foreign and the familiar II: Tourism: the management of pleasure 2. Rising and sinking in sublime places 3. Danger and destabilization I: Indolent delicious reverie II: Disease, debilitation and delusions of revival III: Banditti 4. Art, unease and life I: Odd spectators II: Sculpture studios; socializing with works of art 5. Gastronomy, gusto and the geography of the haunted Bibliography -- .