David Scott Fox

Mediterranean Heritage (Routledge Revivals)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mediterranean Heritage, first published in 1978, offers a wide-ranging and perceptive discussion of the often concealed links between English culture and the common heritage of Western Europe: the Graeco-Roman legacy of the Mediterranean. There seems to have been no time when England has not been in touch with the civilisations of Greece and Italy: even Stonehenge, the most dramatic survivor of our remotest past, has a carved dagger of Mycenaean pattern among its ornaments. The pioneers of a distinctly English creative vision - Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton - clearly looked to Italy. Throughout the eighteenth century 'grand tourists' found southern Europe irresistible. The Romantics all became enraptured by the Mediterranean, and passed on their fascination in some of the most passionate poetry in English. Appearing at a time which England is more obviously a part of Europe than she has been for sixteen hundred years, Mediterranean Heritage provides valuable insights into the origins of our culture's greatest achievements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781138017528
• ISBN-10: 1138017523
• Artikelnr.: 40051758

Autorenporträt

Fox, David

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction 1. Mediterranean Approaches 2. The Renaissance 3. The Age of the Grand Tour 4. Architecture 5. Painting 6. Art Into Landscape 7. Romantic Yearnings 8. Victoriana 9. In the Present Declension
Bibliography
Name Index
General Index