The warm south : how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination /

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An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought fro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holland, R. F. (Robert F.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Colección:Yale scholarship online.
Temas:
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Diplomatic relations
Künste
Kultur
Mittelmeerraum > Motiv
Rezeption
Mediterranean Region > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Relations extérieures > Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain
Mediterranean Region
Großbritannien
Mittelmeerraum
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1. Shelley Burning: The Mediterranean and British Culture
  • 2. The Antique, the Noble and the Stupendous: The Turn to the Mediterranean, 1740-1800
  • 3. The Distorted Mirror: The South in British Culture during the Age of Byron, 1800-30
  • 4. Blue Solitudes: The Mediterranean and the Shaping of Victorian Britain, 1830-60
  • 5. An Enchanted Garden: The Mediterranean and the Aesthetics of High Victorianism, 1860-90
  • 6. The Cult of Beauty: The Mediterranean and British Modernism, 1890-1918
  • 7. That Splendid Enclosure: Meanings of the Mediterranean 225 from Rupert Brooke to Damien Hirst
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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