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The centre and the margins in eighteenth-century British and Italian cultures /

The relationship between the cultural Centre and cultural Margins has fascinated scholars for generations. Who, or what, determines what shall constitute the 'Centre' of a culture, its sacred and canonical forms and substance, and what the Margins? There are significant examples of the Mar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: O'Gorman, Frank (Editor ), Guerra, Lia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of contents; off the beaten track; towards a history of digression; letters from london; from clarissa's sensibility in samuelrichardson's novel to the romanticdream of self-realizationin ugo foscolo's ortis; periphery and centre in the evolutionof the novelistic genre in venice; themargins at the centre; themarginal and the mainstreamas aesthetic categories in eighteenthcenturythought; from "gothicatrocities" to objectsofaesthetic appreciation; tiberio cavallo; autonomy and marginality in foreignartists' circles in rome (c. 1760-1800).