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Brigitte Bailey
American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–62, 03/2018Book Chapter
In the period when modern tourism developed, from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries, a variety of “higher purposes” fueled its language and practice. These purposes included not only the investment of “religious awe” in nature but also the formation of class, gender, and national identities – the focal points of this study. Despite the modest claims of William Gilpin, the eighteenth-century English popularizer of “picturesque travel,” tourists’ perceptions of aesthetic order became the vehicle of their constructions of ideological order. Italy’s status within the culture of tourism as the land of the eye, the home of the
