Publisher:
Yale University Press, New Haven ; London
"From Byron, Edward Lear and Turner to Virginia Woolf and Robert Graves, British writers and artists have long travelled to the Mediterranean. They went seeking inspiration, fulfilment and beauty. In this panoramic history, Robert Holland shows how...
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"From Byron, Edward Lear and Turner to Virginia Woolf and Robert Graves, British writers and artists have long travelled to the Mediterranean. They went seeking inspiration, fulfilment and beauty. In this panoramic history, Robert Holland shows how British culture owes almost everything to Europe's warm south - to a real and imagined world of colour, carnival and sensual self-discovery." Klappentext
xiv, 317 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln,
Illustrationen,
20 cm
Notes:
Shelley burning: the Mediterranean and British culture -- The antique, the noble and the stupendous: the turn to the Mediterranean, 1740-1800 -- The distorted mirror: the South in British culture during the Age of Byron, 1800-30 -- Blue solitudes: the Mediterranean and the shaping of Victorian Britain, 1830-60 -- An enchanted garden: the Mediterranean and the aesthetics of High Victorianism, 1860-90 -- The cult of beauty: the Mediterranean and British Modernism, 1890-1918 -- The splendid enclosure: meanings of the Mediterranean from Rupert Brooke to Damien Hirst