Textual Spaces by Richard E Keatley
Examines how French Renaissance travelers consumed and represented Italian space through writing and the imagination. Includes writings by Rabelais, Montaigne, and Du Bellay as well as lesser-known French travelers, illustrating how the material and imaginative aspects of travel joined to form a space of desire in the French imagination.“Textual Spaces is the product of patient, sound, and thorough scholarship that mobilizes a wealth of source material to paint a vivid picture of the careerism, culture, and curiosity of early modern French travelers to ItalyKeatley has made an original and important contribution to the field of Renaissance studies and to the subfield of travel studies.”
—Eric M. MacPhail, author of Dancing Around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism
“This study illuminates early French travels to Italy from a myriad of angles: linguistic, political, historical, biographical, medical, and architectural. At the same time, it explores outward, linking historical materials to questions of leisure, militarism, and global tourism. Advancing the notion of ‘performed leisure,’ Keatley smartly situates French travel within a rich context of political, social, economic, and learned textual impulses. His study of Montaigne’s voyage, in particular, proves a tour de force.”
—George Hoffmann, author of Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers
“Textual Spaces is a valuable resource for readers interested in a wide variety of aspects of the Renaissance—literary, art historical, and broadly cultural. It will surely stimulate and facilitate further research in its field.”
—John D. Lyons Modern Philology
Richard E. Keatley is an independent scholar from Tucker, Georgia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271081304 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271081309 |
| Title | Textual Spaces |
| Author | Richard E Keatley |
| Series | Early Modern Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2020-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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