The Warm South : How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination / Robert Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Robert, author.

Series:

Yale scholarship online.

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Mediterranean Region--History.

British.

Great Britain--Civilization--Mediterranean influences.

Great Britain.

Mediterranean Region--Foreign relations.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons-including many painters and poets-who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. Shelley Burning: The Mediterranean and British Culture

2. The Antique, the Noble and the Stupendous: The Turn to the Mediterranean, 1740-1800

3. The Distorted Mirror: The South in British Culture during the Age of Byron, 1800-30

4. Blue Solitudes: The Mediterranean and the Shaping of Victorian Britain, 1830-60

5. An Enchanted Garden: The Mediterranean and the Aesthetics of High Victorianism, 1860-90

6. The Cult of Beauty: The Mediterranean and British Modernism, 1890-1918

7. That Splendid Enclosure: Meanings of the Mediterranean 225 from Rupert Brooke to Damien Hirst

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-24087-2

OCLC:

1056109849