|
Item Number: 121047
Title: Cities and the Grand Tour : The British in Italy, c.1690–1820
Author: Sweet, Rosemary
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107020504
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 329pp., 16 illus. Summary: How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic, which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture and the transition to modernity. Contents: 1. Experiencing the Grand Tour ; 2. Florence: a home from home ; 3. Rome ancient and modern ; 4. Naples: leisure, pleasure and a frisson of danger ; 5. Venice: a place of singularity and spectacle ; 6. Medievalism and the Grand Tour.
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com