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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... Poet and a Puritan Doing the Tour of Italy .. 75 78 78 79 80 2.4 John Evelyn : Naples as the ' Non Ultra ' .. 81 2.5 Thomas Gray : ' The Travels of T : G : Gent ' . 81 2.6 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Inundations of Boys and Governors ...
... Poet and a Puritan Doing the Tour of Italy .. 75 78 78 79 80 2.4 John Evelyn : Naples as the ' Non Ultra ' .. 81 2.5 Thomas Gray : ' The Travels of T : G : Gent ' . 81 2.6 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Inundations of Boys and Governors ...
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... Poetry and Comedy . 168 168 .168 4.2.12 Joseph Spence : Libraries ' That a Lady might see with Pleasure ' . 4.2.13 Joseph Spence : The Opera Season in Rome 169 170 4.2.14 Joseph Spence : Musical Orphans in Venice . .171 4.2.15 Lady Mary ...
... Poetry and Comedy . 168 168 .168 4.2.12 Joseph Spence : Libraries ' That a Lady might see with Pleasure ' . 4.2.13 Joseph Spence : The Opera Season in Rome 169 170 4.2.14 Joseph Spence : Musical Orphans in Venice . .171 4.2.15 Lady Mary ...
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... Poet as Cavaliere Servente ....... 4.5.15 Lord Byron : ' A Volume of Manners ' in two Pages . 4.5.16 Richard Keppel Craven : Labourers , Priests , and the Middling Class 266 267 269 273 274 4.5.17 Edward Lear : The Italians and Animals ...
... Poet as Cavaliere Servente ....... 4.5.15 Lord Byron : ' A Volume of Manners ' in two Pages . 4.5.16 Richard Keppel Craven : Labourers , Priests , and the Middling Class 266 267 269 273 274 4.5.17 Edward Lear : The Italians and Animals ...
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... Poetry ' .. 316 316 4.7.9 Tobias Smollett : ' An Object of Tremendous Sublimity ' . 4.7.10 Patrick Brydone : Science and Superstition Meeting on Mount Aetna ..... 317 4.7.11 Hester Lynch Piozzi : ' Living in Eden Still XII.
... Poetry ' .. 316 316 4.7.9 Tobias Smollett : ' An Object of Tremendous Sublimity ' . 4.7.10 Patrick Brydone : Science and Superstition Meeting on Mount Aetna ..... 317 4.7.11 Hester Lynch Piozzi : ' Living in Eden Still XII.
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... poets , a mode for which Addison ( 4.7.5 / 6 ) set up the normative model for the next few generations . Italy as a locus amoenus , in which nature and the works of man harmonize with each other , already implied a picturesque view of ...
... poets , a mode for which Addison ( 4.7.5 / 6 ) set up the normative model for the next few generations . Italy as a locus amoenus , in which nature and the works of man harmonize with each other , already implied a picturesque view of ...
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.