This collection examines a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explores the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Grand Tour and its Legacy, Lisa Colletta Chapter 1: ‘Fog in the Channel’: Joking, Laughing, and Traveling Chloe Chard Chapter 2: Ellis Cornelia Knight as Artist, Writer, and Traveler in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy Clare Hornsby Chapter 3: Violet Ida Chomley: “not the ‘Grand Tour’ but the ‘Downward Path’” Laura Olcelli Chapter 4: Three British Travelers in Egypt: Sophia Lane Poole, Lucie Duff Gordon, and Emmeline Lott Elisabetta Marino Chapter 5: George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track: “Recollections” of Germany and Italy Andrew Thompson Chapter 6: D.H. Lawrence’s Anti-Tour of Fascist Italy: Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan Places Judy Suh Chapter 7: Postcolonial Valediction: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus and the Legacies of the Grand Tour James Buzard Chapter 8: Consuming Italy: From Goethe’s Italian Journey to Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love Shannon Russell Chapter 9: Ripley’s Tour: The Grand Tour as Confidence Trick in The Talented Mr. Ripley Lisa Colletta Chapter 10: See Rome—and Die: Legacies of the Grand Tour in a Roman Cemetery Nicholas Stanley-Price About the Contributors

Enhanced with the inclusion of a ten page Bibliography and an eight page Index, "The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture" is an impressively informed and informative work of originality and scholarship that would augment any academic library Literary Studies and Travel Literature reference collection and supplemental studies reading list. Exceptional and instructive, it should be noted for personal reading lists that The Legacy of the Grand Tour is also available in a Kindle edition.