Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-romance TraditionPrinceton University Press, 2005 - 285 頁 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 Staël, 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. |
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... Italian ) , shaped by the visual arts as well as poetry , yet doomed to emotional misery . The aspiration toward art is typically represented as a desire for the South and for its embodied avatar , a creature of mixed blood and of ...
... Italy , a powerful international symbol well before it ever was a modern nation , has had an extremely rich and varied role ... Italian cities ) . What is in question in Haunted Museum is not the voyage itself but the relation be- tween ...
... Italy as a museum is to evoke the aspiration for a world like that imagined in the fanciful views of Panini , one of order , light , and clarity , of learning and pleasure coexisting in comfort , of the simulacrum of the thing ...
... Italy ( and sometimes France ) —was considered to be , con- sistently , and with real practical results , the natural home of genius . And , indeed , longing for the South as for a lost birthright or homeland of the creative soul is a ...
... Italy is an overde- termined destination for the artist , a passionately desired space combining the prospect of erotic pleasure with the hope for intimacy with the most profound sources of culture . Starting with the fundamental ...
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The Song of Mignon | 21 |
The ArtRomance Tradition | 41 |
James in the Art Romance | 83 |
Henry James Impossible Artists and the Pleasures of Patronage | 85 |
The Museum in the Romance James with Hawthorne | 113 |
Speed Desire and the Museum The Golden Bowl as Art Romance | 149 |
Learned Longing Modernism and the End of the Art Romance | 171 |