Book review: Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth‐Century France: From Grand Tour to School Trips

Filet, Jérémy (2021) Book review: Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth‐Century France: From Grand Tour to School Trips. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 44 (3). pp. 326-327. ISSN 1754-0194

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Abstract

After his studies on travellers visiting England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Philosophies du voyage, 2016), Gábor Gelléri focuses his second monograph on France. The author analyses a wide range of texts belonging to the hybrid genre of travel advice literature: the ars apodemica. These prescriptive texts, arts of travel, are described as ‘a discussion of whether one should travel, and how to make travel beneficial’ (p.205), but Gelléri goes the extra mile by analysing them as a ‘discourse on practice’ (p.7) and a ‘practice of discourse’ (p.140). To do so, Gelléri structures his book in six distinct and complementary chapters, which refer back to one another.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	No
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2022 12:53
Publisher:	Wiley
Additional Information:	Book review of: Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth‐Century France: From Grand Tour to School Trips By Gábor Gelléri. 2020. The Boydell Press. ISBN: 978 1 78327 436 9.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities
Subject terms:	2005 Literary Studies, 2103 Historical Studies, History
URI:	https://mmu-uat.leaf.cosector.com/id/eprint/629916
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12771
ISSN	1754-0194
e-ISSN	1754-0208

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