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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... admired objects , the eye picks out a few at a time : the Farnese Hercules and the Dying Gladiator are visible in the left foreground , the Laocoon is on the right , along with a statue far more famous in Panini's day than our own ...
... admired sites can never be taken in at a view , in which works known from beloved reproduction seem different when confronted in their actual existence or , worse , in which the self that longed for a thing seems disturbingly different ...
... admired relics , is a particularly important instance of the difficulty of arrival . As artists and critics struggled to negotiate the relationship be- tween modern creativity and admired art , the repeated productive crisis was to find ...
... admired models from the past for its validation , Hazlitt's " En- glish Students at Rome " recognizes a recurrent anxiety : " If it were noth- ing else , the having the works of the great masters of former times always before us is ...
... admiration " ( 241 ) is the real puzzle and surprise . The division into two parts of the experiencing sensibility and the sur- prising presence of the fantastic are two formal characteristics of the art- romance tradition that are ...
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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 |