The Elsewhere Community (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugh Kenner
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Travel and letters
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century to the present
- Setting: North America and Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Letters
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans
- Locales: Europe, North America
There was a time, Hugh Kenner reminds readers in the opening pages of his linked series of essays entitled The Elsewhere Community, when the truly educated Briton or American was the one who had made at least one visit to the continent of Europe—specifically Western Europe, and particularly France, the Alps, and Italy, culminating at Rome. It was known as the Grand Tour and was considered a fixed part of one’s intellectual and cultural development. Even if the tour could not be especially grand, it was still enlightening, as travelers as diverse as Edward Gibbon, William...
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