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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... Frances Trollope : ' The General Character of English Travellers ' 97 2.19 Frances Trollope : Tourist Watching . 98 2.20 John Ruskin : Italy - A Book , not a Dream 99 2.21 Robert Browning : ' Italy ' Graved inside the Heart . 99 2.22 ...
... Frances Trollope : ' The General Character of English Travellers ' 97 2.19 Frances Trollope : Tourist Watching . 98 2.20 John Ruskin : Italy - A Book , not a Dream 99 2.21 Robert Browning : ' Italy ' Graved inside the Heart . 99 2.22 ...
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... Frances Trollope : Crossing the Magra 131 3.18 Charles Dickens : Doing Mantua with a Cicerone . 131 3.19 Charles Dickens : The Osteria of La Scala 134 3.20 Edward Lear : How to Obtain Milk for Breakfast in Calabria 135 3.21 John ...
... Frances Trollope : Crossing the Magra 131 3.18 Charles Dickens : Doing Mantua with a Cicerone . 131 3.19 Charles Dickens : The Osteria of La Scala 134 3.20 Edward Lear : How to Obtain Milk for Breakfast in Calabria 135 3.21 John ...
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... Francis Mortoft : ' The Sweet Singer and Eunuch Bonaventura ' 168 4.2.10 Joseph Addison : The Ambrosian Library ... Frances Trollope : An All - Italian Congress of Savants 4.2.31 Charles Dickens : Leonardo da Vinci's ' Last Supper ...
... Francis Mortoft : ' The Sweet Singer and Eunuch Bonaventura ' 168 4.2.10 Joseph Addison : The Ambrosian Library ... Frances Trollope : An All - Italian Congress of Savants 4.2.31 Charles Dickens : Leonardo da Vinci's ' Last Supper ...
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... Frances Trollope : Germany more Picturesque than Italy . 325 4.7.20 Thomas Adolphus Trollope : Picturesque Vines and Acrid Wine ....... 325 4.7.21 George Henry Lewes : Far from the ' Intellectual Strife ' of English Life 325 4.7.22 John ...
... Frances Trollope : Germany more Picturesque than Italy . 325 4.7.20 Thomas Adolphus Trollope : Picturesque Vines and Acrid Wine ....... 325 4.7.21 George Henry Lewes : Far from the ' Intellectual Strife ' of English Life 325 4.7.22 John ...
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The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated Anthology Manfred Pfister. 5.1.13 Frances Trollope : Swimming in a Gondola .347 5.1.14 John Ruskin : Venice Destroyed .348 5.1.15 Edward Lear : The Pictures better than the Real Thing ...
The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated Anthology Manfred Pfister. 5.1.13 Frances Trollope : Swimming in a Gondola .347 5.1.14 John Ruskin : Venice Destroyed .348 5.1.15 Edward Lear : The Pictures better than the Real Thing ...
Contents
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Descriptive List of Illustrations | 58 |
Multiple Civilizations | 104 |
The Hazards of Travelling | 118 |
The Perception of Otherness | 142 |
and an English Esthete | 151 |
as Cavaliere Servente | 269 |
Domestic Economy | 291 |
Off the Beaten Tracks and the Mezzogiorno | 395 |
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