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Complete Gentlemen

Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750

Richard Ansell (University of Leicester)

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English
Oxford University Press
31 March 2022
Complete Gentlemen is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Ansell reconstructs dozens of encounters with continental Europe, revealing how the varying means, ambitions, and obligations of families produced widely differing experiences of educational travel. Where historians usually isolate time abroad, he pays unprecedented attention to what families thought and did before, after, and instead of foreign travel, stages that uncover its true significance for British and Irish society. This innovative approach requires a deep source base over several generations, provided by the manuscript archives of four clusters of families from England and Ireland. Ansell uses these archives to relate travel, too often a stand-alone topic, to broader questions in social and cultural history, exploring the meanings of time abroad for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity, and Englishness.

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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 159mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9780197267271
ISBN 10:   0197267270
Series:   British Academy Monographs
Pages:   306
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 1: Before Travel 2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour' 3: Learning Abroad 4: Networking Abroad 5: Returns from Travel Conclusion Bibliography Index

Richard Ansell is a historian of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, focusing on travel to continental Europe. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford. He held the Irish Government Senior Scholarship at Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester, where he is currently a Research Associate. Alongside educational travel, he is now working on travelling servants and British encounters with Spain. His research has appeared in the Historical Journal, English Historical Review and several edited collections.

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