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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... offer the prospect of novelty , but is only recognizable because it is to an important degree already known . Although the museum and the voyage can seem all - too - material — and , indeed , the promise of the materializa- tion of ...
... offer insights for the understanding of forms of exploration or more self - evident modes of dominance that came to the fore late in the century , studies attempting to make the connection will need to begin from the insight that in the ...
... offer the shelter promised at the outset ; its stately beauty is transfigured into appalling images that are hellish , im- mediate , and grotesquely physical . It is little wonder that the soul is finally driven out of the palace of art ...
... 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 lies ahead is nothing other than an ...
... offers no escape , it does provide a vivid identi- fication of the sources of haunting ; the poem's response to the unanswer- able question is not clarity , but the manifestation of corpses — already in a state of putrefaction because ...
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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 |