Title & Author:

Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 / edited by Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, ©1996.

Description:

viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.
Visitors' visions : travellers' tales of Georgian London / Roy Porter -- Lord Byron's grander tour / Rosemary Bechler -- Infectious enthousiasms : influence, contagion, and the experience of Rome / Richard Wrigley -- Crossing boundaries and exceeding limits : destabilization, tourism, and the sublime / Chloe Chard -- The imaginative geographies of Claude Lorrain / Helen Langdon -- Private cabinets and popular geology : the British audiences for volcanoes in the eighteenth century / Richard Hamblyn -- "To remind us of China"-William Beckford, mental traveller on the grand tour : the construction of significance in landscape / E.S. Shaffer -- Liberty and license : the Forsters' account of New Zealand sociability / Nicholas Thomas -- Trade, travel, and treasure : seventeenth century artificial curiosities / Ken Arnold -- The journey and its narratives / Tsvetan Todorov.
Published for: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Yale Centre for British Art.

Summary:

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 travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through to 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.
The authors address narrative orderings of travel; the classification of exotic subjects; 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 licence 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.

ISBN:

0300063822 (cloth)
9780300063820 (cloth)

Subject:

Travel in literature.
Art.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Arts.
Travel history
Voyage dans la littérature.
Littérature.
fine arts (discipline)
works of art.
Reizen.
Grand Tour.
Kunst.
Peinture moderne Thèmes, motifs.
Voyage Dans l'art.
Voyage Dans la littérature.
English literature Special subjects Travel

Form/genre:

Literature
Littérature.

Added entries:

Chard, Chloe.
Langdon, Helen.
Studies in British art ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 133994
Call No.: ID PN56.T7.T67; ID:97-B360
Status: Available