Exploring European frontiers : British travellers in the Age of Enlightenment / Brian Dolan.

London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

xi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-225) and index.

Preparing the course: the death of the grand tour and the making of a literary traveller -- Northern frontier: Scandinavia- the mismeasure of modernity and the 'Age of liberty' -- Eastern frontier: Russia and its frontier- cultivating empire and imitating enlightenment -- Southern frontier: Greece and the Levant- the archaeological appropriation of the historical frontier -- Coming home: displaying and describing the trophies of travels.