Impressions of Southern Italy: British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas

ISBN-13: 9780367868772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Sharon Ouditt

Opis

Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late 18th to the mid-20th century, the author considers what these travellers discovered as a series of unfolding impressions disclos

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Naples: Liminal City  2. Cities of the Dead: Pompeii to Paestum  3. Magna Graecia  4. Ways of Seeing: Earthquakes and Landscapes  5. Politics and Revolutions  6. In Praise of Baroque  7. Myths and Legends  8. Africa and the Orient  Conclusion

O autorze

Sharon Ouditt is Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War (1993) and Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography (1999), and editor of Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture (2002).