1st Edition
British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840
By Maureen McCue
Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
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As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr... Read more
Introduction, Maureen McCue; Chapter 1 Attempting ‘To Engraft Italian Art on English Nature’, Maureen McCue; Chapter 2 Connoisseurship, Maureen McCue; Chapter 3 Making Literature, Maureen McCue; Chapter 4 Samuel Rogers’s Italy, Maureen McCue; Chapter 102 Conclusion, Maureen McCue;
Biography
Dr Maureen McCue is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bangor University, UK.
Shortlisted for the 2015 BARS First Book Prize
