TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Lessons of travel in eighteenth-century France : from Grand Tour to school trips
T2  - Studies in the eighteenth century
A1  - Gelléri, Gábor, 1976- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Woodbridge, Suffolk
PB  - The Boydell Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5555814
AB  - "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 practice was 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 abbe Pluche's educational best seller, The Spectacle of Nature, through Rousseau's Emile to practical prospectuses for collective educational travel in the revolutionary period, Gelleri investigates what it meant to 'think about travels' in eighteenth-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 such issues 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"--
SN  - 978-1-78327-436-9 kovakantinen
SN  - 1783274360 kovakantinen
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - Voyages and travels.
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - France : Intellectual life : 18th century.
KW  - France
ER  -