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- catalog abstract "For well over a century, the Grand Tour of France and Italy - which included a stay in Venice - served as the ultimate in finishing schools for the young male elite of Great Britain. This book explores Venice's magnetic hold on the imagination of the Grand Tourist and connects the ideology of the Tour to the mythology of Venice. According to Bruce Redford, the Tour offered a heady combination of aesthetic, social political, and sexual experience, and it provided its alumni with a life-long source of cultural and political authority. Yet from the beginning the Tour was also viewed with deep suspicion: it was feared that the very experiences that completed the British gentleman might well undo him. The aspiration and ambivalence that characterize the Tour attached themselves most powerfully to the experience of Venice. Drawing on a wide range of materials - from guidebooks to portraits, from satirical poems to garden pavilions - Redford investigates Venice's power of attraction for the British, and shows that it was a source of many echoes and metaphors of Britain's own cultural, political, and geographical situation.".
- catalog alternative "Venice and the grand tour".
- catalog contributor b9628218.
- catalog coverage "Venice (Italy) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "For well over a century, the Grand Tour of France and Italy - which included a stay in Venice - served as the ultimate in finishing schools for the young male elite of Great Britain. This book explores Venice's magnetic hold on the imagination of the Grand Tourist and connects the ideology of the Tour to the mythology of Venice. According to Bruce Redford, the Tour offered a heady combination of aesthetic, social political, and sexual experience, and it provided its alumni with a life-long source of cultural and political authority. Yet from the beginning the Tour was also viewed with deep suspicion: it was feared that the very experiences that completed the British gentleman might well undo him. The aspiration and ambivalence that characterize the Tour attached themselves most powerfully to the experience of Venice. Drawing on a wide range of materials - from guidebooks to portraits, from satirical poems to garden pavilions - Redford investigates Venice's power of attraction for the British, and shows that it was a source of many echoes and metaphors of Britain's own cultural, political, and geographical situation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-132) and index.".
- catalog description "Perspectives -- Narratives -- Myths -- Portraits -- Transformations.".
- catalog extent "v, 137 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300069111 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice".
- catalog spatial "Venice (Italy) Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "914.5/31047/08921 20".
- catalog subject "British Europe History.".
- catalog subject "British Italy Venice History.".
- catalog subject "DG673 .R43 1996".
- catalog subject "Travel writing History.".
- catalog subject "Travelers Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, English Italy Venice History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Perspectives -- Narratives -- Myths -- Portraits -- Transformations.".
- catalog title "Venice & the grand tour / Bruce Redford.".
- catalog title "Venice and the grand tour".
- catalog type "text".