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News from Abroad
James T. Boulton (Ed.)
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Description for News from Abroad
Hardcover. The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home. Editor(s): Boulton, James T.; McLoughlin, T. O. Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 293 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
This book provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many 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 travellers to the sights, pleasures and discomforts encountered on the journey. People of diverse backgrounds, with different expectations and interests, give personal accounts of their particular experiences of the Grand Tour. Unlike most collections of letters from the Tour, which ... Read more
This book provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many 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 travellers to the sights, pleasures and discomforts encountered on the journey. People of diverse backgrounds, with different expectations and interests, give personal accounts of their particular experiences of the Grand Tour. Unlike most collections of letters from the Tour, which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
Series
Eighteenth Century Worlds
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318504
SKU
V9781846318504
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About James T. Boulton (Ed.)
James T. Boulton is Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham; Hon. Professor in the School of English, Bangor University. T. O. McLoughlin is Emeritus Professor, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier.
Reviews for News from Abroad
... informatively introduced and edited, a continuously absorbing ensemble formed of five notably diverse voices from the Grand Tour.
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