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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... never visited alone . One is always accompanied by memories one's own and those of others . As will be evident to the reader of the chapters to follow , the analysis of particular works in the art - romance tradition is consistently ...
... never quite sufficient — all museums are haunted in some measure . To gather together prized material in the hope that the Muses will thereby be encouraged to manifest themselves — that is the magic or necromancy promised by the ...
... never inhabited , whether experiential or political . The argument of this book depends on recognizing the un- blinking artificiality of the romance as its only access to whatever of the real it is able to represent . While the cultural ...
... never answered directly . Indeed , the insistent conjunctions that characterize the stanzas that follow link nothing that is logically con- nected ; the parataxis serves rather to evoke the shock of sudden unpleasant discovery of things ...
... never newly constructed . Tennyson's poem offers a number of useful points of departure for thinking about the special kind of disappointment inherent not in the postponement of the expected or desired , but in the realization that what ...
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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 |