@book{0bb7fc8e226a40b18d7989de75f8b288,
title = "Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France: From Grand Tour to School Trips",
abstract = "The book will explore the changing conceptions of travel as educational practice from the late 17th century to the Revolutionary period and slightly beyond: there is no work offering such an overview. The book will also tackle a number of texts entirely or mostly unknown to the academic and wider public. France is well known for a duality in its approach to travels: we find at the same time a continuous fascination for travellers, and an ongoing unease with travel writing. The repeated attempts to create {\textquoteleft}perfect{\textquoteright} travels and travelogues belong both to the international tradition of {\textquoteleft}arts of travel{\textquoteright}, and represent a unique, French answer. Planned structure of the volume: Introduction: on travels, arts of travel and on crisis 1. Commercial perspectives: abb{\'e} Pluche and Co. 2. Travel on a Moebius strip: Rousseau in the apodemic tradition 3. Last reminiscences of the Grand Tour 4. The end of an era: the Lyon competition and the art of non-travel 5. Inventing school trips to save the Revolution 6. Between travel and mission: travel in the training of diplomats Conclusion: Is there a French tradition in the arts of travel?",
keywords = "travel, education, Grand Tour, France, tourism",
author = "Gabor Gelleri",
note = "To be completed 2017, to be published 2018.",
year = "2020",
month = feb,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1783274369",
series = "Studies in the Eighteenth Century",
publisher = "Boydell & Brewer",
}
