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Titre : The Mediterranean Passion : Victorians and Edwardians in the South Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Pemble, Auteur Editeur : Faber and faber Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 312 p. Format : 14X22 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-25145-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869.
In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history.
The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.En ligne : https://cdn.faber.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/325x/040ec09b1e35df1 [...] The Mediterranean Passion : Victorians and Edwardians in the South [texte imprimé] / John Pemble, Auteur . - Faber and faber, 2009 . - 312 p. ; 14X22 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-571-25145-2
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé : The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869.
In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history.
The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.En ligne : https://cdn.faber.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/325x/040ec09b1e35df1 [...] Réservation
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