The Grand Tour In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Sarah Goldsmith
Publisher : Institute of Historical Research
ISBN 13 : 9781912702213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-century Grand Tour written by Sarah Goldsmith and published by Institute of Historical Research. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Tour, a customary trip of Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. 0Examining testimony as written by Grand Tourists, tutors and their families, Goldsmith demonstrates that the Grand Tour educated elite young men in a wide variety of skills, virtues and masculine behaviours that extended well beyond polite society. She argues that dangerous experiences were far more central to the Tour as a means of constructing Britain's next generation of leaders than has previously been examined. Influenced by aristocratic concepts of honour and inspired by military leadership, elites viewed experiences of danger and hardship as powerfully transformative and therefore as central to the process of constructing masculinity.0Far from viewing danger as a disruptive force, Grand Tourists willingly tackled a variety of social, geographical and physical perils, gambling their way through treacherous landscapes; scaling mountains, volcanoes and glaciers; and encountering war and disease. Through the study of danger, Goldsmith offers a revision of eighteenth-century elite masculine culture and the critical role the Grand Tour played within this.

Author : Tate Gallery
Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Tour written by Tate Gallery and published by Tate Publishing(UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue looks at the Grand Tour, a vital aspect of European civilisation in the age of the Enlightenment, from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750931694
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Abroad written by Jeremy Black and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Abroad is illustrated throughout with a superb collection of photographs and maps, many previously unpublished. This book will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century travel and the social intricacies of travelling abroad in that era.

Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780007105335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Grand Tour written by Brian Dolan and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house, talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body. For many the Grand Tour -- often undertaken in great parades of coaches laden with servants, trunks, and furniture -- became an intellectual and romantic rite of passage. The landscape, health spas, salons, and social scene of Enlightenment Europe provided a wealth of glamorous, revolutionary, and therapeutic experiences from which many ladies returned "the best informed and most perfect creatures." Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through their stories, thoughts, and court gossip, recorded in journals, letters, and diaries. Ladies of the Grand Tour creates a mesmerizing portrait of a previously overlooked slice of eighteenth-century life."

Author : Glynis Ridley
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142337
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clara's Grand Tour written by Glynis Ridley and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300099775
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Grand Tour written by Jeremy Black and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of such early tourists' interest. In this book, historian Jeremy Black recreates the actual tourist experiences of those who travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour. Relying on the private diaries and personal letters of travellers, rather than on the self-conscious accounts of literary travellers who wrote for wider audiences, the book presents an authentic picture of how British tourists experienced Italy, its landscapes, women, food, music, Catholicism, and more. illustrations, the book highlights the discrepancy between the idealised view of the Grand Tour and its reality: what people were meant to do was not necessarily what they did, what the guide books described as splendid was not always so perceived. Black quotes British visitors as they reflect on their trips, and he discusses what their Italian experiences meant to them. And he considers the intriguing effects of tourism on British culture during this most exciting of centuries.

Author : William Edward Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Mead and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Author : WILLIAM EDWARD. MEAD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033269046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GRAND TOUR IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY written by WILLIAM EDWARD. MEAD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020506
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Grand Tour written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.