The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated AnthologyManfred Pfister Rodopi, 1996 - 554 pages This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonn eit presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. |
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... and Herculaneum ......... 152 4.1.15 Henry George Lewes : ' Hideous Obscenity ' in Pompeian Bedrooms .. 153 4.1.16 George Gissing : Lunch at Sybaris ........... 154 4.1.17 D.H. Lawrence : ' The Life - Loving Etruscans VII.
... and Herculaneum ......... 152 4.1.15 Henry George Lewes : ' Hideous Obscenity ' in Pompeian Bedrooms .. 153 4.1.16 George Gissing : Lunch at Sybaris ........... 154 4.1.17 D.H. Lawrence : ' The Life - Loving Etruscans VII.
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... Etruscans ' . 4.1.18 Charles Lister : Tracing the Appian Way 4.1.19 Fiona Pitt - Kethley : Into the Underworld 4.2 Arts and Learning ... 4.2.1 Fynes Moryson : First News of Michelangelo ... 4.2.2 Thomas Coryate : A Venetian Playhouse ...
... Etruscans ' . 4.1.18 Charles Lister : Tracing the Appian Way 4.1.19 Fiona Pitt - Kethley : Into the Underworld 4.2 Arts and Learning ... 4.2.1 Fynes Moryson : First News of Michelangelo ... 4.2.2 Thomas Coryate : A Venetian Playhouse ...
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... Etruscans . 406 6.13 Janet Ross : Pliny's Well . 409 6.14 Martin Shaw Briggs : In Praise of Lecce . 410 6.15 Norman Douglas : A Column in Magna Graecia . 411 6.16 D.H. Lawrence : ' Penetrating into Italy ' .. 414 6.17 Duncan Fallowell ...
... Etruscans . 406 6.13 Janet Ross : Pliny's Well . 409 6.14 Martin Shaw Briggs : In Praise of Lecce . 410 6.15 Norman Douglas : A Column in Magna Graecia . 411 6.16 D.H. Lawrence : ' Penetrating into Italy ' .. 414 6.17 Duncan Fallowell ...
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... Etruscan Places ( Lawrence , 1916 , 1921 , 1932 ) , Love and War in the Ap- penines ( Newby , 1971 ) or To Noto ( Fallowell , 1989 ) , to mention only a few . There is a fourth type of texts from which we include excerpts in our ...
... Etruscan Places ( Lawrence , 1916 , 1921 , 1932 ) , Love and War in the Ap- penines ( Newby , 1971 ) or To Noto ( Fallowell , 1989 ) , to mention only a few . There is a fourth type of texts from which we include excerpts in our ...
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... civilizations of Sybara ( 4.1.16 ) or the Etruscans ( 4.1.17 ) or in ancient matriarchal my- steries ( 4.1.19 ) . One of the stories in section 2 , penetrating South into a more myste- rious Italy beyond the bounds of the Grand Tour , 16.
... civilizations of Sybara ( 4.1.16 ) or the Etruscans ( 4.1.17 ) or in ancient matriarchal my- steries ( 4.1.19 ) . One of the stories in section 2 , penetrating South into a more myste- rious Italy beyond the bounds of the Grand Tour , 16.
Contents
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Descriptive List of Illustrations | 58 |
Multiple Civilizations | 104 |
The Perception of Otherness | 142 |
as Cavaliere Servente | 269 |
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Page 8 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.