Buch Details
Siegel argues that Italy's allure derives not only from its celebrated promise of unique natural beauty and prized antiquities, but from the opportunity it offers writers to place themselves in relation to a web of prior accounts of travel to the native land of genius. Beginning with Goethe as the founding figure of the tradition, Haunted Museum moves from a rich reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century--including new readings of works by Byron, de Sta--l, Barrett Browning, and others--to an ambitious examination of Henry James's well-known engagement with Europe, newly understood as a response to this important literary legacy. Readings of works by Freud, Forster, Mann, and Proust demonstrate the longevity of the tradition of looking to Italy for the representation of desires as impossible to satisfy as they are to deny.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Siegel, Jonah
- ISBN13 9780691120874
- ISBN10 0691120870
- Buchseiten 285
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2005
Haunted museum: longing, travel, and the art-romance tradition
- Autor/in Jonah Siegel
- Verlag PRINCETON
- ISBN 9780691120874