The grand tour

Towner, John

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(85)90002-7

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“…5 Towner in outlining the 'distinct tour itinerary' failed to mention Switzerland and the Alps. 6 There seems little disagreement that Switzerland, the focus of this article, lay on the route of the Grand Tour, but views on its importance seem to differ if the space devoted to it is used as a criterion. In a work edited by Lambert 7 a chapter was devoted to each stage of the Grand Tour and one chapter of twenty pages considered Switzerland and the Alps.…”

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Between Grand Tour and Tourism

Heafford

2006

The Journal of Transport History

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E nter any British stately home and there is a strong chance that you will find hanging on one of its walls the portrait of the eighteenth-century owner or his son depicted on his tour of the Continent. More often than not, the main figure will have a Roman view in the background, or a classical building, or an ancient statue or vase. The gentleman, sometimes with his family, sometimes with his tutor, was participating in what came to be designated as the Grand Tour. The nature of this tour has received considerable attention from historians, who have taken as their principal source the letters and journals of individual travellers. Some of these were published in the writer's lifetime, some later, and yet others remained in manuscript. Historians have used this material in different ways, sometimes adopting a biographical approach by describing the journeys of individuals, sometimes a geographical approach by writing chapters on each country passed through, sometimes a thematic approach by collating topics from a number of travelogues, and sometimes by combining one or more of these approaches. From these writings it is possible to gain an impressionistic view of this quintessentially British form of European tour: that it was largely the monopoly of the wealthy and aristocratic class, that it usually lasted a year or more, and that its most important destinations were first Rome and second Naples. The main participants were collectors purchasing antiquities and works of art, artists completing their professional education, upper-class families participating in a round of social activities with their compatriots and with the native upper classes, and young men under tutorial guidance 'finishing' the classical education they had received at home by examining the sites and buildings of Roman civilisation in situ and possibly picking up some modern language skills, above all in French, on the way. 1 However, few of those writing about the Grand Tour have offered any sharp definition of it. There is some measure of agreement over countries included in it, but less over the relative importance of each individual country. Mead 2 considered the route limited to France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries. Trease 3 and Hibbert 4 did the same, though Hibbert added Austria. Black found setting himself geographical confines problematic. He therefore decided to 'enlarge the scope of the work to include all British tourism in

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Section: Between Grand Tour and Tourismmentioning

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Between Grand Tour and Tourism

Heafford

2006

The Journal of Transport History

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“…As contemporary mobile subjects, Langdon's and Neveu's engagement with apocryphal and philosophical aspects of the Christian doctrine helps them to transcend an emotionally neutralized study of European culture, reminiscent of the early phase of the Grand Tour (Towner 1985), and to engage personally with the mystery they investigate. The shift of experiential perspective resembles a rite of passage (van Gennep 1906;Turner 1974), transforming the ictional protagonists into pilgrims of elusive sacred sites.…”

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The Da Vinci Node: Networks of Neo-pilgrimage in the European Cosmopolis

Tzanelli¹

2010

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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The paper explores how the Da Vinci Code, a novel by Dan Brown, and its cinematic adaptation (2006) operate as a 'node' for European capitalist networks of corporeal and virtual travel. Reexamining the convergence, as well as the divergence of patterns and practices of early travel and contemporary tourism, the paper discusses the centrality of technologies of "gazing" upon other cultures and of collecting cultural signs to the global networks of contemporary (digitized or corporeal) travel. It is argued that the ilm and the novel assist in the interpellation of a new type of traveler, what is termed here a neo-pilgrim. The mobilization of neo-pilgrimage by global tourist networks also indicates a kind of staged cosmopolitanism that originates in conceptions of the cosmopolitan as the epistemological subject of Enlightenment political philosophy. Contrariwise, however, the cosmopolitanism of the Da Vinci Code democratizes the consumption of what used to be regarded as high culture, reserved exclusively for the old, aristocratic, elites of Europe. It will be argued that the novel and the ilm break away from established codes of authorship in cultural production while debating the emergence of a new service class of professional travelers whose leeting visits to museums, galleries, luxury hotels and boulevards operate as both unacknowledged touring of commoditised European heritage and an aspect of personal self-betterment and self-education.

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“…Dès 1855, Cook propose des vacances guidées à l'étranger, notamment en Suisse à partir de 1863, année d'inauguration de l'Athénée genevois et de la mort de Eynard. Ces voyages s'adressent à une clientèle mixte, des chefs d'État et des princes aux classes moyenne, moyenne inférieure et ouvrière(Gyr 2010 ;Towner 1985). 11 Le nombre des touristes dans le monde est passé de 25 millions en 1950 à 1,4 milliard en 2018(Roser 2017).…”

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Ville et créativité

2023

Chôra

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Ce livre, qui reproduit les interventions et les échanges du ForumVille et créativité autant que les contributions qui se sont ajoutées au fil du temps, n'aurait pas vu le jour sans l'engagement et l'aide de plusieurs personnes. Les remercier ici, ce n'est pas qu'une convention à satisfaire, mais un moyen de témoigner et garder la mémoire d'un travail collectif que tout un chacun à sa façon a contribué à réaliser. Ainsi, nous voulons tout d'abord remercier les intervenant•es et les discutant•es, qui nous ont suivis dans la difficile période du confinement lors de la pandémie et ont accepté de participer au Forum via Zoom. Également nous remercions nos étudiant•es de la Master Class de Sociologie 2019-2020, qui pour chaque séance se sont chargé•es d'introduire les intervenant•es et les discutant•es et ont contribué à animer les discussions qui ont suivi.Nous adressons aussi un grand merci à l'Institut des recherches sociologiques et à la Faculté de sciences de la société pour le soutien financier. Le Fonds national suisse a de même promu le Forum dans le cadre du projet Unexpected Inclusions : Migration, Mobility and the Open City (UNIC ; projet numéro 100019E_190051), portant sur l'in clusion.Merci aussi à l'École polytechnique fédérale (EPFL) et à la Fonda tion Braillard, nos partenaires institutionnels. Enfin, un merci par t iculier va à Sami Kanaan, responsable de la culture et du sport à la Ville de Genève, qui a bien voulu écrire la préface de ce livre.

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The grand tour

Cited by 221 publications

References 14 publications

Between Grand Tour and Tourism

Between Grand Tour and Tourism

The Da Vinci Node: Networks of Neo-pilgrimage in the European Cosmopolis

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