Avenues for Further Learning

General Resources

Black, Jeremy. The British and the Grand Tour. Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm, 1985.

Burgess, Anthony, and Francis Haskell. The Age of the Grand Tour. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968.

Buzard, James. The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and Ways to Culture, 1800-1918. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Grand Tour. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.

Lambert, R.S., ed. The Grand Tour: A Journey in the Tracks of the Age of Aristocracy. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1935.

Mead, William Edward. The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972.

Redford, Bruce. Venice and the Grand Tour. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Trease, Geoffrey. The Grand Tour. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.

Contemporary Accounts

Boswell, Thomas. Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765 -1766. Eds. Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. 1846.

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life. Ed. G.A. Bonnard. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Italian Journey. 1816-17.

Lassels, Richard. The Voyage of Italy. 1670.

Moore, John. A View of Society and Manners in Italy: with Anecdotes relating to some Eminent Characters. 1781.

Porter, Dennis. Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Smollett, Tobias. Travels through France and Italy. 1766.

Twain, Mark. Innocents Abroad. 1869.

The Grand Tour in Poetry and Prose

Byron, George Gordon. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 1812-18.

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorritt. 1855-57.

Forster, E.M. A Room with a View. 1908.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. 1860.

James, Henry. Daisy Miller. 1878.

Shelley, Mary. Lodore. 1835.

Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. 1751.

Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. 1768.