This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1

This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most co

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' f

Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young males from nor