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News from abroad : letters written by British travellers on the Grand Tour, 1728-71 / compiled and edited by James T. Boulton, T.O. McLoughlin.
LIBRA D967 .N497 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Eigteenth-century worlds.
- Eigteenth-century worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--Travel--Europe--History--18th century--Sources.
- British.
- Travelers--Europe--Correspondence.
- Travelers.
- British--Travel.
- History.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Sources.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- This book provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends by five British travellers undertaking the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many individual letters have been published previously, this is the first time that letters of this kind have been brought together in a single volume. Readers can compare the various responses of the travellers to the sights, pleasures and discomforts encountered on the journey, juxtaposing for example the letters of the conscientious young nobleman George Lyttelton with those of the excitable philanderer James Boswell, or those of the tutor-companion Joseph Spence, eager to make the most of his opportunity for self-improvement, with those of the well-travelled aristocrat Lady Caroline Lennox. While the travellers represented here follow much the same route - via Paris, through France and across the Alps via the terrifying Mount Cenis to Rome - in the pursuit of learning and pleasure, the Tour turns out to mean something quite different to each of them. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Tourists and Their Letters 4
- George Lyttelton (1709-73): Letters (1728-30) 23
- Joseph Spence (1699-1768): Letters (1730-3) 81
- James Boswell (1740-95): Letters (1764-6) 129
- James Barry (1741-1806): Letters (1765-71) 169
- Caroline Lennox (1723-74): Letters (1766-7) 213.
- ISBN:
- 9781846318504
- 1846318505
- OCLC:
- 806200808
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