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The British and the Grand Tour

By Jeremy Black

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
ISBN
0415609828, 9780415609821
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1462750 bytes)
Series
Routledge Revivals
Pages
288\207
Time added
2014-04-13 04:32:52

Description

First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour. The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.

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