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Textual Spaces

Name: Textual Spaces
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271081304
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271081304

French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage

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By Richard E. Keatley
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July 14, 2020
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Pages: 248

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In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the façade of leisurely travel literature to unearth a complex web of rhetorical, sociological, and political values that conditioned and informed the experiences of French travelers in Italy.

Utilizing period maps and geographical sources, Keatley combines rigorous philological mapping of travelers' itineraries with creative analyses of the tensions that undergird the rewriting of space. He examines a vast corpus of texts that includes Montaigne's Journal de voyage, Du Bellay's Regrets, and Jacques de Villamont's Voyages, as well as lesser-known and anonymous travel accounts of the French experience in Italy. In his readings, Keatley traces how the creation of these textual spaces allowed travelers to transform territories lost to France through warfare into spaces of desire, forming what Pierre Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which was used in an ongoing commerce within the French political landscape.

By highlighting the political and militaristic origins of leisure excursions, Textual Spaces contributes to our understanding of travel's dual nature and invites the modern reader to examine the exploitative origins of tourism. Linking the fields of literary and cultural studies, history and art history, and spatial and landscape theory, it provides an engaging vision into the early history of travel that will interest historians, literary scholars, and anyone keen to understand why we venture abroad.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Montaigne Inside and Out

2. Textuality, Sexuality, and Political Geography: André de la Vigne and the French Conquest of Naples

3. Space, Travel, and Work

4. The Topographical Narrative

5. Spaces and Places of the Voyage d’Italie

6. Mapping Montaigne’s Rome

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“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

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