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Language and the Grand Tour
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Arturo Tosi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivi
Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Chloe Chard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1
Italy and the Grand Tour
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Jeremy Black
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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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 s
Cities and the Grand Tour
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Rosemary Sweet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating b
The Grand Tour
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Rich Kienzle
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of “the definitive country