Description
With chapters by Ken Arnold, Rosemary Bechler, Richard Hamblyn, Roy Porter, E. S. Shaffer, Nicholas Thomas, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Wrigley, and the editors, Transports discusses a range of original topics. These include narrative orderings of travel; the classification of exotic objects; pastoral and paradisal topography in the paintings of Claude Lorrain; Beckford's invocations of China as he travels through Italy; volcanoes in the discourses of travel and geology; the experience of Rome; crossing boundaries and exceeding limits in travel and in the sublime; liberty and license in New Zealand; foreigners' responses to the high-velocity culture of London; and Byron's sublime impulse beyond the established bounds of the Grand Tour.
Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
About the Author
Chloe Chard is a literary historian who has specialized in travel writing, eighteenth-century aesthetic theory and art criticism, and the Gothic novel. Helen Langdon is an art historian and writer with particular interests in the Italian Baroque and in travel.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300063820
Author Chloe Chard
Format Hardback
Page Count 350
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 1270g