Table of Contents

Introduction: on reading arts of travel
Defining the Grand Tour
From touring to training: the case of diplomacy 1680-1830
Trading with men, dealing with God: abbé Pluche's ideas on travel
Travelling on a Moebius strip: Émile's travels
The end of an era? The prize contest of the Academy of Lyon (1785-87)
Inventing school trips? Revolutionary programmes of collective educational travel
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

GÁBOR GELLÉRI is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University.

Reviews

An extremely well-researched, well-argued and well-written book that deserves to be read not only by specialists in travel history and the Grand Tour, but also by scholars who take a keen interest in the intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and Europe.
*FRANCIA*

[The author] has written a detailed study that reaches its goal of filling the historiographic gap on travel in eighteenth-century France. Gelléri offers insight into the mechanisms and functions of travel advice literature by examining its forms of discourse with great care. What is really to be applauded is Gelléri's ability to offer fresh analyses of well-known texts, such as Rousseau's Émile. Furthermore, Gelléri continually links the social and intellectual benefits of travel with its moral and sexual danger and carefully examines the question of who should be allowed to travel and for what reasons.
*Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies*