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  1. An odyssey
    a father, a son and an epic
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  William Collins, London

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780007545131
    RVK Categories: HU 9800 ; FH 20038
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Other subjects: Homer; Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam 1960- / Family; Fathers and sons; Mediterranean Region / Description and travel
    Scope: 304 Seiten
  2. The warm south
    how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination
    Published: 2020
    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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780300251531
    RVK Categories: HG 410
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Subjects: Kultur; Künste; Mittelmeerraum <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Other subjects: British / Mediterranean Region / History; Great Britain / Civilization / Mediterranean influences; Mediterranean Region / Description and travel; British; Travel; Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region / Foreign relations / Great Britain; History
    Scope: xiv, 317 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen, 20 cm
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    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