Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Volume 3) (Studies in British Art) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300063822 ISBN 13: 9780300063820

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre, 1996

Synopsis

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 travelers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through 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. At the same time, concepts of pleasure and enjoyment became entangled with visual and verbal representations of that which was foreign.

With chapters by Ken Arnold, Rosemary Bechler, Richard Hamblyn, Roy Porter, E. S. Shaffer, Nicholas Thomas, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Wrigley, and the editors, Transports discusses a range of original topics. These include narrative orderings of travel; the classification of exotic objects; pastoral and paradisal topography in the paintings of Claude Lorrain; Beckford's invocations of China as he travels through Italy; volcanoes in the discourses of travel and geology; the experience of Rome; crossing boundaries and exceeding limits in travel and in the sublime; liberty and license in New Zealand; foreigners' responses to the high-velocity culture of London; and Byron's sublime impulse beyond the established bounds of the Grand Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Chloe Chard is a literary historian who has specialized in travel writing, eighteenth-century aesthetic theory and art criticism, and the Gothic novel. Helen Langdon is an art historian and writer with particular interests in the Italian Baroque and in travel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0300063822
• ISBN 13: 9780300063820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Chard Chloe, Langdon Helen