The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond...

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Michael G. Brennan

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

Michael G. Brennan

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English

Hakluyt Society
28 April 2005

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Classic travel writing

Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'.

Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons.

The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms, including personal diaries (Montagu), family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant, Robert Moody), and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints, engravings, curiosities, coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers.

Edited by: Michael G. Brennan
Imprint: Hakluyt Society
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: No.14
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 247mm
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9780904180855
ISBN 10: 0904180859
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 28 April 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK, and joint Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt Society.