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Title: THE FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY: THE ITALIES OF BRITISH TRAVELLERS
AN ANNOTATED ANTHOLOGY
By: Manfred Pfister (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 905183943X
ISBN 13: 9789051839432
Publisher: BRILL
Pub. date: 1 January, 1996
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden 15
Pages: 554
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 an anthologie raissonnee 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.
Publication: Netherlands
Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Returns: Non-returnable
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