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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Lisa Colletta - Contributions by James Buzard; Chloe Chard; Clare Elizabeth Hornsby; Laura Olcelli; Shannon Russell; Nicholas Stanley-Price; Judy Suh and Andrew R. H. Thompson Klappentext This collection examines a wide variety of literature-travel, memoir, and fiction-and explores the ways travel and ideas of "culture" have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. 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. Zusammenfassung This collection examines a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explores the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Grand Tour and its Legacy, Lisa CollettaChapter 1: 'Fog in the Channel': Joking, Laughing, and TravelingChloe ChardChapter 2: Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century ItalyClare HornsbyChapter 3: Violet Ida Chomley: "not the 'Grand Tour' but the 'Downward Path'"Laura OlcelliChapter 4: Three British Travelers in Egypt: Sophia Lane Poole, Lucie Duff Gordon, and Emmeline LottElisabetta MarinoChapter 5: George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track: "Recollections" of Germany and ItalyAndrew ThompsonChapter 6: D.H. Lawrence's Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy: Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan PlacesJudy SuhChapter 7: Postcolonial Valediction: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus and the Legacies of the Grand TourJames BuzardChapter 8: Consuming Italy: From Goethe's Italian Journey to Gilbert's Eat, Pray, LoveShannon RussellChapter 9: Ripley's Tour: The Grand Tour as Confidence Trick in The Talented Mr. RipleyLisa CollettaChapter 10: See Rome-and Die: Legacies of the Grand Tour in a Roman CemeteryNicholas Stanley-PriceAbout the Contributors...
