Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 / edited by Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, [1996], ©1996. |
| Series: | Studies in British art ;
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Table of Contents:
- Visitors' visions : travellers' tales of Georgian London / Roy Porter
- Lord Byron's grander tour / Rosemary Bechler
- Infectious enthousiasms : influence, contagion, and the experience of Rome / Richard Wrigley
- Crossing boundaries and exceeding limits : destabilization, tourism, and the sublime / Chloe Chard
- The imaginative geographies of Claude Lorrain / Helen Langdon
- Private cabinets and popular geology : the British audiences for volcanoes in the eighteenth century / Richard Hamblyn
- "To remind us of China"-William Beckford, mental traveller on the grand tour : the construction of significance in landscape / E. S. Shaffer
- Liberty and license : the Forsters' account of New Zealand sociability / Nicholas Thomas
- Trade, travel, and treasure : seventeenth century artificial curiosities / Ken Arnold
- The journey and its narratives / Tsvetan Todorov.