The warm south : how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination /
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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Yale scholarship online.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
