{"product_id":"textual-spaces-french-renaissance-writings-on-the-italian-voyage-paperback","title":"Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard E. Keatley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTextual Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing 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 Michel de Montaigne's \u003ci\u003eJournal de voyage\u003c\/i\u003e, Joachim du Bellay's \u003ci\u003eRegrets\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jacques de Villamont's \u003ci\u003eVoyages\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting the political and militaristic origins of leisure excursions, \u003ci\u003eTextual Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRichard E. Keatley\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent scholar from Tucker, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086302306611,"sku":"9780271081304","price":89.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aebnBY9YwE9780271081304.webp?v=1772054378","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/textual-spaces-french-renaissance-writings-on-the-italian-voyage-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}