News from Abroad
Letters Written by British Travellers on the Grand Tour, 1728-71
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
293 pages
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5 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2012
The Grand Tour was an educational rite of passage for much of Britain’s upper class during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. In News from Abroad, James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin assemble a fascinating diversity of letters from five different travelers as they embarked from Britain en route to Paris, across the Alps, and on to Rome, along the way exploring contemporary European life as well as nearly two millennia of history and art. The first comprehensive book to bring several letter-writers together into a single volume, News from Abroad is a rich collection of primary sources that offers exciting new comparisons of what the Grand Tour meant for the individuals who undertook it.
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