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Author Verhoeven, Gerrit, 1980- author.

Title Europe within reach : Netherlandish travellers on the grand tour and beyond (1585-1750) / by Gerrit Verhoeven ; translated by Diane Webb
Published Leiden : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Egodocuments and history series, 1873-653X ; VOLUME 9
Egodocuments and history series ; v. 9. 1873-653X
Contents Europe within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750); Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Graphs; Introduction; Overture; Sources; Method; Theory; Boundaries; PART 1: The Travellers; 1 Elite Travellers; Group Portrait; Bourgeois Dignitas; Professions; Fortune; Lifestyle; Aristocratic Swaggering; Conclusion; 2 Objectives; Diplomacy; Education; Business; Leisure; Conclusion; 3 Servants; Travelling Servants; Worlds Apart; Status and Street Credibility; Disobedience and Loyalty; Culture and Recreation; Conclusion; 4 Other Travellers
In the Margin of the Group PortraitThe Upper Middle Class; Age; Female Travellers; Conclusion; Halfway; PART 2: Destinations and Activities Undertaken en Route; 5 Culture; The Perception of Art on Tour; Connoisseurs and Art Lovers; Personal Taste; Conclusion; 6 History; The Legacy of Clio; Oblivion and Recollection; Heroes of Yesteryear; Conclusion; 7 Landscapes; Experiencing Nature; Familiar Ground; The Rustic Landscape; Classical Gardens; Rugged Nature; Conclusion; 8 Consumption; Conspicuous Consumption; Consumer Revolution; Creative Consumption; Cosmopolitanism; Social Significance
Leisure ConsumptionConclusion; 9 Politics; Early-Modern Propaganda and Travel Behaviour; The Image of Louis XIV; Conclusion; Conclusion; Evolving Travel Behaviour; Agents of Change; Significance; Tourism?; Bibliography; Index of Places; Index of Names
Summary Transl. by Diane Webb. In 'Europe within reach' Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-329) and index
Notes English translation from the Dutch "Anders reizen."
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Subject Dutch -- Travel -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Dutch -- Travel -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Flemings -- Travel -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Flemings -- Travel -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Elite (Social sciences) -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
Elite (Social sciences) -- Belgium -- Flanders -- History -- 17th century
Elite (Social sciences) -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century
Elite (Social sciences) -- Belgium -- Flanders -- History -- 18th century
Grand tours (Education)
grand tours.
TRAVEL -- Europe -- General.
Dutch -- Travel.
Elite (Social sciences)
Grand tours (Education)
Travel.
SUBJECT Europe -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045661
Subject Belgium -- Flanders.
Europe.
Netherlands.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004293335
9004293337
Other Titles Anders reizen. English