Gábor Gelléri

Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France (eBook, PDF)

From Grand Tour to School Trips

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider debate about the social status quo.

Early modern educational travel is usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young nobleman's journey through the established highlights of Europe. Lessons of Travel presents how, in eighteenth-century France, this practicewas heavily contested, and the idea of educational travel had far wider implications.
Through the study of a huge range of both canonical and little-known sources discussing "the art of travel", from abbé Pluche's educational best seller, The Spectacle of Nature, through Rousseau's Émile to practical prospectuses for collective educational travel in the revolutionary period, Gelléri investigates what it meant to 'think about travels' ineighteenth-century France. Consideration of who should travel and for what purpose, he argues, contributed to an international intellectual tradition but also provided a pretext for debate on the social status quo, including suchissues as the place of the merchant class, the necessity for professional training, the uses of travel for young women and the education of a new generation of citizens of the Revolution.

GÁBOR GELLÉRI is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787445772
• Artikelnr.: 63205704

Autorenporträt

GÁBOR GELLÉRI is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: on reading arts of travel Defining the Grand Tour From
touring to training: the case of diplomacy 1680-1830 Trading with men,
dealing with God: abbé Pluche's ideas on travel Travelling on a Moebius
strip: Émile's travels The end of an era? The prize contest of the Academy
of Lyon (1785-87) Inventing school trips? Revolutionary programmes of
collective educational travel Conclusion Bibliography