Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour / / Sarah Goldsmith.
The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letters,...
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Superior document: | New historical perspectives |
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Place / Publishing House: | London : : University of London Press,, 2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New historical perspectives.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Hazarding chance: a history of eighteenth-century danger
- 2. Military mad: war and the Grand Tour
- 3. Wholesome dangers and a stock of health: exercise, sport and the hardships of the road
- 4. Fire and ice: mountains, glaciers and volcanoes
- 5. Dogs, servants and masculinities: writing about danger and emotion on the Grand Tour.