This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel accounts, commercial advice, letters, novels and philosophical works of the long eighteenth century, reveal the growing impact of Briti...
Table des matières
1. Introduction.- Part I. Conceptualizing Sociability: Travel and Tourism.- 2. The Cham on the Seine: Dr Johnson in Paris (and Mrs Thrale).- 3. Enlightened ...
A propos de l’auteur
Sebastian Domsch, Chair of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Greifswald, Germany, is the author of The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Ce...