Author : Bruce Redford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300069112
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)
Book Synopsis Venice & the Grand Tour by : Bruce Redford
Download or read book Venice & the Grand Tour written by Bruce Redford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Bruce Redford, the Tour offered a heady combination of aesthetic, social political, and sexual experience, and it provided its alumni with a life-long source of cultural and political authority. Yet from the beginning the Tour was also viewed with deep suspicion: it was feared that the very experiences that completed the British gentleman might well undo him.