READING WORKSHOP
The aim of our reading workshop is to kickstart discussions regarding new directions for study of cultures and practices of travel. To this end, we have selected the below chapters/conference papers:
Jean Boutier, ‘Inventing the “Grand Tour”: an historiographical success story, between anticipation and nachleben’, given on 7th November 2016, at the ‘Art of Travel 1500-1800: Invention, Tradition, Innovation’ conference at the NUI Galway.
Wendy Bracewell, ‘The travellee’s eye: reading European travel writing, 1750-1850,’ in Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst (eds) New Directions in Travel Writing Studies (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015), pp. 215-227.
Jill Bepler, ‘Travelling and posterity: the archive, the library and the cabinet’, in Rainer Babel and Werner Paravicini (eds), Grand Tour: Adeliges Reisen und Europäische Kultur vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2005), pp. 191-203.