{"product_id":"a-critical-reader-of-the-romantic-grand-tour-tristes-plaisirs-9780719044991","title":"A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eI: Triste plaisir\u003cbr\u003eII: The tropes of travel: how to avoid languor in language\u003cbr\u003e1.  Pleasure\u003cbr\u003eI: The foreign and the familiar\u003cbr\u003eII: Tourism: the management of pleasure\u003cbr\u003e2.  Rising and sinking in sublime places\u003cbr\u003e3.  Danger and destabilization\u003cbr\u003eI: Indolent delicious reverie\u003cbr\u003eII: Disease, debilitation and delusions of revival\u003cbr\u003eIII: Banditti\u003cbr\u003e4. Art, unease and life\u003cbr\u003eI: Odd spectators\u003cbr\u003eII: Sculpture studios; socializing with works of art\u003cbr\u003e5. Gastronomy, gusto and the geography of the haunted \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037285024087,"sku":"9780719044991","price":37.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719044991.jpg?v=1750935160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-reader-of-the-romantic-grand-tour-tristes-plaisirs-9780719044991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}