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Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Literary and Art Theories
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Hardcover
With Rosamaria Loretelli (other contributor) |
from Cambridge Scholars Pub (May 1, 2010)
9781443819732 | details & prices | 265 pages | List price $67.95
About: The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as: the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and, patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century.
About: The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as: the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and, patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century.