A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour

Tristes Plaisirs

Chloe Chard, Rebecca Mortimer

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Manchester University Press
06 February 2014

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Classic travel writing

Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some cases, translated into English at the time); 'Tristes Plaisirs' includes writings by Charles Dupaty, Maria Graham, Anna Jameson, Sydney Morgan, Henry Matthews and Hester Lynch Piozzi.

The extracts often focus on the labile moods that contribute to the 'triste plaisir' of travelling (as Madame de Stael termed it): moods such as restlessness, anxiety, exhaustion, animal exuberance, sexual excitement and piqued curiosity.

The introduction considers some of these responses in relation to the preoccupations and rhetorical strategies of travel writing during the Romantic period and introductory commentaries examine the ways in which the passages take up a series of themes, around which the five chapters are ordered: 'Pleasure', 'Rising and sinking in sublime places', 'Danger and destabilization', 'Art, unease and life', and 'Gastronomy, Gusto and the Geography of the Haunted'. -- .

By: Chloe Chard
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780719044991
ISBN 10: 0719044995
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 February 2014
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chloe Chard lives and works in London

Reviews for A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour: Tristes Plaisirs

To call a book about the Grand Tour 'Tristes Plaisirs' shows originality. Usually, the dissipaions of the Society of Dilettanti and other milordi are characterised as a rollicking, aristocratic equivalent of a gap year, but the travellers' accounts anthologised in this book show that pleasure seeking could also be a serious affair.' Not only is this book as well researched as one would expect from its scholarly authors, but it is lso lavishly illustrated to illuminate the points they make: a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white drawings and photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves. -- .