France and the Grand Tour

Black, Jeremy

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“…By 1700, the Tour of Italy was a defining practice in the formation of the upper-class habitus, integral to both the moral and aesthetic edification of the upper-class tourist (Black, 1992) 3 . Inspired by the value conferred on foreign travel by the classical authors (Dalby, 2000) and informed by the Post-reformation spirit of learning 'which valued empirical knowledge over abstract speculation or look learning derived merely from tradition' (Ousby, 1990:9), the Tour of Italy was considered the highpoint of the Grand Tour (Black, 2003).…”

Section: Classical and Renaissance Italy: 1680-1780mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering Cultural Representation with Field Theory: Continuity and Change in the Discursive Construction of Italy and the Italians in England from 1680 to 1830

Thorpe

2019

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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This article demonstrates the comparative merits of Bourdieu's field theory, as opposed to the composite theoretical model set out in Edward Said's Orientalism specifically and critical normative approaches to theorizing constructions of otherness more generally, as the basis for a more analytically differentiated account of cultural representation. Crucially, one capable of acknowledging the generative effects negative constructions of the other have for informing the contexts in which positive constructions arise and how the interplay of both negative and positive discursive constructions inform continuity and change in the discursive representation of the cultural other over time. Drawing on secondary historical data relating to discursive representations of Italy and the Italians in England during the period 1680 to 1830, the argument is made that both negative and positive discourses of Italy and the Italians arise out of and inform relations of conflict and cohesion conjoining agents at an intra-, as opposed to inter-, cultural level. It is the variable conditions of fields which determine agents' dispositions towards representing the other either negatively and or positively. The article concludes by reflecting on the limits of the 'Saidian' legacy for theorizing cultural representation and calls for the analytical significance of positive constructions of the other to be further problematized and explored.

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Section: Classical and Renaissance Italy: 1680-1780mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering Cultural Representation with Field Theory: Continuity and Change in the Discursive Construction of Italy and the Italians in England from 1680 to 1830

Thorpe

2019

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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“…74 The very fact that they were countrywomen was the nuns' main asset. Significant in this respect is the observation that travellers in Italy scoured uncountable Italian houses admiring the treasures, 75 yet passed over the local communities in the Netherlands. Here they had more interesting places to visit: English sisters.…”

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Catholic Nuns and English Identities. English Protestant Travellers on the English Convents in the Low Countries, 1660–1730

Corens¹

2011

Recusant History

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I took the opportunity, my Lord, this last summer when I was in Flanders to get an exact calculation of all the English seminaries in the Low Countries in order to show Her Majesty by your Lordship the root from whence this great growth proceeds, which sends us such numbers of tourists and gentlemen brought up in an aversion to our civil and religious constitution, and which carries such immense sums out of England, and does more than anything keep up our unhappy divisions amongst us.(John Macky, 1707)The English have also here [Aire-sur-la-Lys] a nunnery for ladies, call’d the poor clares; and poor they are indeed! For they have two bare-footed Friars to go about de country every morning to beg provision for them, who never miss in coming into the publick inns, when they hear of the arrival of an Englishman. I went to deliver my charity out of my own hands, which I put into a wheel that turned round, but could not see any of their faces, only the lady that received the bounty, told me that she was a daughter of Lord Widdrington.(John Macky, 1725)

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“…After all, was the fecundity of the French aided when the famed gastronome Grimod de la Reynière insisted that the enjoyment of good food was far superior to dallying with women (Ferguson 2004)? Although few British tourists actually vilified refined cuisine as both cause and consequence of the alleged vice and weakness of the French (a theme repeated ad nauseum in caricature and on the stage), many were taken aback at some of the culinary differences across the Channel, with frog's legs and escargot receiving special mention (Black 2003). Others, however, got some polemical mileage out of exploring the gender implications of such differences.…”

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Manhood Incorporated

Forth

2007

Men and Masculinities

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Employing an interdisciplinary framework, this article attempts to "think" the history of men and masculinities in a transnational way by connecting the distinctive experiences of specific national cultures to the broader anxieties about modern civilization that exercised Westerners generally. As a contribution to a more comprehensive analysis of the male body, it argues that the consumption of food and other ingesta was thought to have considerable consequences for the masculinity of Western elites, whether aristocratic or bourgeois, in a manner that promoted the cultural construction (literally, the "incorporation") of certain forms of manhood both as social representations and embodied experiences. It thus encourages a deeper understanding of how the male body is materially as well as symbolically constructed, and how this construction relates to various masculine norms.

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France and the Grand Tour

Cited by 69 publications

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Reconsidering Cultural Representation with Field Theory: Continuity and Change in the Discursive Construction of Italy and the Italians in England from 1680 to 1830

Reconsidering Cultural Representation with Field Theory: Continuity and Change in the Discursive Construction of Italy and the Italians in England from 1680 to 1830

Catholic Nuns and English Identities. English Protestant Travellers on the English Convents in the Low Countries, 1660–1730

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