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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... Early work on the topic profited from conversa- tions with Scott Karambis and Sophia Padnos , and subsequent development was aided by the responses of audiences at the Yale English Department's Eighteenth- and Nineteenth - Century ...
... early on a danger inherent in satisfaction itself . There is far more at stake than a romantic challenge to neoclassical values in William Hazlitt's claim in 1827 that " Rome is of all places the worst to study in , for the same reason ...
... to its source in her earliest desires and knowledge : " What ! is not this my place of strength , " she said , " My spacious mansion built for me , Whereof the strong foundation - stones were laid Since my A Haunted Form⚫ 9.
... early art romances , that it is sometimes impossi- ble to think of them as involving one master narrative and subsidiary tales . In Landon's " Improvisatrice , " for example , the distinction is blurred al- most to the point of ...
... earliest desires and fears . The sad fact that will accompany Emerson wherever he goes is given a fanciful form that only makes it more disturbing . The figure of a looming giant evokes not the troubles of adult life so much as the ...
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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 |