Cover of Transports

Book 1996

Transports

1 readers

Publisher
Paul Mellon Center BA
Language
English
Published
1996
  • Classic travel writing
  • Social history
  • Modern Art
  • Literary Criticism
  • Europe
  • General
  • Travel in literature

In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through to the early decades of the nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a crucial point of reference for travel and imaginative geography in general.