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03050aam a22003978i 4500 001 D858730E776911E3809E827FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140107010125 008 130718s2014 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013024022 020 $a 0415715091 (hardback) 020 $a 9780415715096 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)856579467 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR756.T72 $b O98 2013 082 00 $a 820.9/358547 $2 23 084 $a LIT000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Ouditt, Sharon, $d 1963- 245 10 $a Impressions of Southern Italy : $b British travel writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas / $c Sharon Ouditt. 263 $a 1311 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, $c 2013. 300 $a 221 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Routledge research in travel writing ; $v 8 520 $a "Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the author considers what these travellers discovered, not in the form of a survey, but as a series of unfolding impressions disclosing multiple Southern Italies. Of the numerous travellers analysed within this volume, the central figures are Henry Swinburne, Craufurd Tait Ramage and Norman Douglas, whose Old Calabria (1915) remains in print. Their appeal is that they take the region seriously: Southern Italy wasn't simply a testing ground for their superior sensibilities, it was a vibrant curiosity, unknown but within reach. Was the South simply behind on the road to European integration; or was it beyond a fault line, representing a viable alternative to Northern neuroses? The travelogues analysed in this book address a wide variety of themes which continue to shape discussions about European identity today"-- Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The End of Europe? -- Naples: Liminal City -- Cities of the Dead: Pompeii to Paestum -- Magna Graecia -- Ways of Seeing: Earthquakes and Landscapes -- Politics and Revolutions -- In Praise of Baroque -- Myths and Legends -- Africa and the Orient -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a Travelers' writings, English $z Italy, Southern $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Italy, Southern $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a Italy, Southern $x In literature. 650 0 $a British $z Italy, Southern $x History. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180102051903.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D858730E776911E3809E827FDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search