Overview
- Appeals to historians of culture and ideas, Italian and British history, and English Literature and Comparative Literature
- Provides a careful analysis of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century academic journals in the emerging field of British travel
- Focuses on the unexpectedly close relations between the Royal Society and the south of Italy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Learned Travel before the Grand Tour: The Royal Society 1665–1700
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The Grand Tour of South Italy: The Discovery of the Two Sicilies 1700–1800
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About the author
Manuela D’Amore is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Catania in Italy. The author of literary translations and essays on Early Modern Literature and the Victorian Age, she has also written on British eighteenth-century travelers to Italy, America and the Middle East. Her Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, co-written with Michèle Lardy (Sorbonne I), appeared in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies
Book Subtitle: Southern Routes in the Grand Tour
Authors: Manuela D’Amore
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55291-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55290-3Published: 29 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85619-3Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55291-0Published: 09 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History