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Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art - Romance Tradition
Jonah Siegel
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Description for Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art - Romance Tradition
Paperback. Offers a look at Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries focusing on a literary tradition. This book moves from a reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century - including readings of works by Byron, de Stael, Barrett Browning, and others - to an examination of Henry James's engagement with Europe. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The voyage south has been an integral part of the imagination of inspiration. Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the "art romance"--the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality. Siegel argues that Italy's allure derives not only from its celebrated promise of unique natural ... Read more
For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The voyage south has been an integral part of the imagination of inspiration. Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the "art romance"--the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality. Siegel argues that Italy's allure derives not only from its celebrated promise of unique natural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691120874
SKU
V9780691120874
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About Jonah Siegel
Jonah Siegel, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of "Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art" (Princeton).
Reviews for Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art - Romance Tradition
"Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the 'art romance'
the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality."
Julien Desrochers, Fabula "Haunted Museum offers a wide-ranging and imaginatively wrought ... Read more
the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality."
Julien Desrochers, Fabula "Haunted Museum offers a wide-ranging and imaginatively wrought ... Read more