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- City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University Press of New England
summary
City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870—from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. The book will appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in the history of art, architecture, and photography, the Romantic poets, and other writers from Byron to Henry James. It will also attract the interest of historians of urbanism, landscape, and Italy. Nonspecialists and armchair travelers will enjoy the diverse literary and artistic responses to Rome.
Table of Contents
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- Director's Foreword
- pp. 9-10
- Rome: City of the Soul
- pp. 11-34
- The Greatest Theatre in the World
- Speaking Ruins
- Rus in Urbe: Villas, Gardens & Fountains
- Magick Land
- 41. James Anderson, The Arch of Nero
- pp. 122-123
- Written From Rome
- 49. Bartolomeo Pinelli, Carnival Scene
- pp. 140-141
- 51. George Housman Thomas, Panorama of Rome
- pp. 144-145
- 52. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Italian Notebooks
- pp. 146-147
- 53. James Anderson, The Trevi Fountain
- pp. 148-149
- 55. Wilkie Collins, Letter to Charles Ward
- pp. 152-154
- From Drawing and Etching to Photography
- 66. Three Roman Guidebooks
- pp. 176-177
- 67. Domenico Amici, Album of Roman Views
- pp. 178-179
- Works Cited in Abbreviated Form
- pp. 187-197
- Acknowledgments
- p. 198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875981727
Related ISBN(s)
9780875981710
MARC Record
OCLC
935055629
Pages
207
Launched on MUSE
2016-06-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016