The Legacy of the Grand Tour

New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture

Contributions by James Buzard, Chloe Chard, Clare Elizabeth Hornsby, Laura Olcelli, Shannon Russell, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Judy Suh, Andrew R. H. Thompson Edited by Lisa Colletta

Publication date:

09 December 2015

Length of book:

226 pages

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Dimensions:

238x158mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781611477979

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its aristocratic origins and the permutations of sentimental and romantic travel to the age of tourism and globalization, the Grand Tour still influences the destinations tourists choose and shapes the ideas of culture and sophistication that surround the act of travel. The essays in this collection examine a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explore the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour in the 18th century. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.
Enhanced with the inclusion of a ten page Bibliography and an eight page Index, "The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture" is an impressively informed and informative work of originality and scholarship that would augment any academic library Literary Studies and Travel Literature reference collection and supplemental studies reading list. Exceptional and instructive, it should be noted for personal reading lists that The Legacy of the Grand Tour is also available in a Kindle edition.