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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… Résumé This entry deals with female travel narratives to the Continent, with a focus on those written during the revolutionary decade (1789-1800). It aims to … in the education of eighteenth-century women. The revolutionary decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel narratives as the formation of the self through culture, amusements and public events was increasingly seen as … tied up with the nature and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Mots-clés Women Travel French Revolution travelogue wollstonecraft montagu beaumont biggs Williams In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley …

Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… Résumé The Grand Tour was a form of educational travel undertaken by young aristocratic and gentry men. Travel and separation from the home had long been an important means of forming young boys but a nascent Grand Tour … connections.  Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Mots-clés Education Formation elite masculinity tourism Travel diplomacy academies Politeness Court Salon Cosmopolitanism Continental networks The Grand Tour was a form of …

Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]

… Résumé A well-travelled man, Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer, was a founding member of the Dilettanti and the Divan Club, … has since come to be known as the Hell-fire Club. Thus, on the one hand, Dashwood’s life highlights the importance of traveling to London’s eighteenth-century club scene, specifically how the impressions gathered in other countries … > Association Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Hell-fire Club Society of Dilettanti Divan Club Grand Tour Travelling Secret Society The history of Sir Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer (1708-1781), is marked by …

Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… events that fostered the cultural Arab Renaissance and led to the Arab discovery of European sociability. A number of travel reports of the period were instrumental in introducing some of its models to Arab society, such as Takhlīs … as one of the earliest records of the impact of traditional Arab culture on modern European civilization. People > Travel Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Mots-clés Arabic literature Travel arab renaissance Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī Encounter East-West Paris The encounter between East and West from the …

Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… major roads in the provinces, and town centres, and in cities. They also functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to … the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Mots-clés drinking Travel Class boundaries Hospitality Sociability in fiction In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period … they were an important part of the transportation network. Horses were changed at inns and goods were unloaded, while travellers boarded or left the coaches. Larger inns often had courtyards with galleries, from which travellers could …

English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… beyond the space of the physical theatre itself. Theatre is also at the centre of transnational networks, as performers travel across the Channel and texts are adapted, translated and plagiarised, often around prominent personalities whose … > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Mots-clés Theatre Audience Europe Travel Translation Circulation Voltaire Garrick Haendel Pierre-Antoine de la Place Opera Perhaps more than a place for … accompanying Cosimo III on his visit to England in 1667, was impressed by the promiscuity of the place. 2 Moritz, in his Travels, Chiefly on foot (1795), also mentions the famous rowdiness of English audiences, describing his narrowly missing …