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Britain and Italy in the long eighteenth century : literary and art theories /

The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary ge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Loretelli, Rosamaria (Editor ), O'Gorman, Frank (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Rosamaria Loretelli and Frank O'Gorman
  • Dealing with change in literary and art theories / Rosy Colombo
  • Picturesque reconsidered--and preserved / Francesca Orestano
  • Stranded in the present : modernity and De Ligne's 'Lettre de Parthenizza' / Bram van Oostveldt and Stijn Bussels
  • A dialogue between the deaf and the dumb : aesthetic theories in England and Italy during the eighteenth century / Andrea Gatti
  • The linguistic turn in the aesthetics of the Scottish enlightenment / Dugald Stewart [and] Daniele Niedda
  • Hutcheson on beauty and virtue / Suzanne Marcuzzi
  • The printed record of an oral tradition : Anna Gordon Brown's ballads / Ruth Perry
  • The circulation of British books in eighteenth-century Pavia : work in progress / Lia Guerra
  • Eighteenth-century Italian books in London : the presence of Italian regional publishing in the collections of the British Library / Anna Giulia Cavagna
  • The space of time : 'Fleurons' as temporal markers in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' and Ugo Foscolo's 'Ortis' / Rosamaria Loretelli
  • Imaginary voyages' aesthetic theories : towards a definition of the fantastic / Riccardo Capoferro
  • Music, Don Quixote, and the novels of Miss Burney /Barbara Witucki
  • Talking animals and the instruction of children : Dorothy Kilner's 'The Rational Brutes' / Silvia Granata
  • Fielding and Sterne : reception, new debts and echoes in the Italian novel of the first hundred years / Daniela Mangione
  • A "British" look at Italian poetry : Saverio Bettinelli, the 'English Letters' (1766), and the idea of cosmopolitanism / Emilio Sergio
  • Sterne and Foscolo : the ironic sovereignty of the individual / Angelo Canavesi
  • "Marble mad and very extravagant" : Henry Ince Blundell and the politics of cultural reputation in Britain and Italy / James Moore.