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Le voyage français en Italie au XIXe siècle : bibliographie analytique
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ISBN: 9782851573551 9788882297336 8882297330 Year: 2007 Volume: 2 12 Publisher: Fasano: Schena,

Pleasure and guilt on the Grand Tour : travel, writing and imaginative geography 1600-1830
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ISBN: 0719048052 0719048044 Year: 1999 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

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This book examines the forms of language that map out Italy and the warm South as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. The book considers the Tour with reference not to the social history of travel but rather to strategies of description and commentary, narrative and thematic orderings and arguments and assumptions about how the encounter with the foreign should be managed. Traveller's descriptions of art and landscape are set within this wider context and the range of different concepts of gender are discussed - in particular of effeminacy and manliness - that are formed within commentaries on Italian landscape and culture.

The evolution of the Grand Tour : Anglo-Italian cultural relations since the Renaissance.
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ISBN: 0714644749 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Cass

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Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.

Italies : anthologie des voyageurs français aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
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ISBN: 2221055888 9782221055885 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris: Laffont,

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Du "Grand Tour" au tourisme, de la pérégrination humaniste aux loisirs organisés: deux siècles de découverte et d'invention d'une Italie multiforme, à la fois proche et distante, désirée et dédaignée, dont la féminité imaginaire (dans les fantasmes des Français) a successivement pris les figures de la mère et de la sœur, de la fille et de l'amante. De Misson à Emile Zola, une longue théorie de voyageurs, très inégalement réceptifs aux sortilèges de la Péninsule: si beaucoup ne l'ont parcourue qu'avec la certitude des choses apprises, d'autres ne sont pas revenus indemnes de leur équipée au-delà des Alpes. Certains, au terme de leur quête - parfois enquête, parfois conquête -, ont eu la révélation de la mort ou du bonheur. Des correspondances privées aux carnets de route, des journaux intimes aux recueils de souvenirs, un vaste entrelacs de textes dont l'intérêt n'est pas seulement anecdotique ni la valeur simplement documentaire; car où voyager aujourd'hui, sinon dans les récits des voyageurs?

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