Background
Dolan, Brian Patrick was born on October 28, 1970 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Son of Earl Goss Dolan and Janet Edwina Seligman.
(Casanova's belief that England 'is different in every asp...)
Casanova's belief that England 'is different in every aspect from the rest of Europe' was increasingly shared in the eighteenth century by England's body politic. But just what was it that made it - or, indeed, not just England but Britain more generally - different? Swelling patriotism led increasing numbers of British travellers to comb the far reaches of Europe and make assessments, comparisons, analyses and judgements about the relative state of civility between themselves and their neighbours. This study examines a range of British travellers' perceptions of Europe and charts their quests to explore and contrast far-flung European frontiers - to Lapland, to the eastern provinces of the Russian empire, the Levant. Using a wide range of eighteenth-century travel accounts, Dolan demonstrates how these narratives were often informed by and designed to address contemporary historical and scientific assessments of the status of modern European civilisation.
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(According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a ...)
According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house, talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body. For many the Grand Tour -- often undertaken in great parades of coaches laden with servants, trunks, and furniture -- became an intellectual and romantic rite of passage. The landscape, health spas, salons, and social scene of Enlightenment Europe provided a wealth of glamorous, revolutionary, and therapeutic experiences from which many ladies returned "the best informed and most perfect creatures." Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through their stories, thoughts, and court gossip, recorded in journals, letters, and diaries. Ladies of the Grand Tour creates a mesmerizing portrait of a previously overlooked slice of eighteenth-century life.
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Dolan, Brian Patrick was born on October 28, 1970 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Son of Earl Goss Dolan and Janet Edwina Seligman.
Bachelor, University Florida, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1995.
Lecturer Umeå (Sweden) University, 1995—1996, University East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1996—2001. Professor University London, 2001—2002, University California, San Francisco, since 2002.
(According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a ...)
(Casanova's belief that England 'is different in every asp...)
Member of Society Authors, History of Science Society.
Married Dorothy Elizabeth Porter, August 5, 2000.