Description: Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late 18th to the mid-20th century, the author considers what these travellers discovered as a series of unfolding impressions disclos
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"This wide-ranging study illuminates how travelers to Southern Italy made sense of a rich and strange world which challenged many British cultural and political assumptions." - Katherine Turner, Mary Baldwin College, USA
"This book offers a rich portrait of the southern regions of the peninsula as seen through the eyes of British travellers from the eighteenth century to today. It will confirm some of the stereotypes readers of books about Italy are inevitably familiar with, but it is equally likely to challenge others." - Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK