The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers. An Annotated Anthology. (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) - Softcover

M. Pfister; Pfister, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 905183943X ISBN 13: 9789051839432

Publisher: Editions Rodopi, 1996

Synopsis

This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As ananthologie raissonnée it presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 905183943X
• ISBN 13: 9789051839432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554