Haunted Museum
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-12086-7 (ISBN)
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For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The voyage south has been an integral part of the imagination of inspiration. "Haunted Museum" is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the 'art romance' - the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality. 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 Stael, 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.
Jonah Siegel, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of "Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art" (Princeton).
Acknowledgments xi Preface: The Gesture Back xiii INTORDUCTION: A Haunted Form 3 PART ONE: The Art Romance 19 CHAPTER 1: The Song of Mignon 21 CHAPTER 2: The Art-Romance Tradition 41 PART TWO: James in the Art Romance 83 CHAPTER 3: Henry James: Impossible Artists and the Pleasures of Patronage 85 CHAPTER 4: The Museum in the Romance: James with Hawthorne 113 CHAPTER 5: Speed, Desire, and the Museum: The Golden Bowl as Art Romance 149 PART THREE: Learned Longing: Modernism and the End of the Art Romance 171 CHAPTER 6: Freud on the Road to Rome 173 CHAPTER 7: Speed, Romance, Desire: Forster, Proust, and Mann in Italy 195 APPENDIX: James, Freud, and the End of Romance 227 Notes 239 Index 275
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.7.2005 |
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Zusatzinfo | 12 halftones. |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 652 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-12086-2 / 0691120862 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-12086-7 / 9780691120867 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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