Haunted museum
Subtitle: longing, travel, and the art romance tradition
By: Jonah Siegel.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Romanticism.; Art in literature.; Artists in literature.; Travel in literature.; Italy -- In literature.
Description: Less about place than about the haunting forms of inspiration, more about the desire to arrive than about arrival, 'The Haunted Museum' is an ambitious study of the influential literary fantasy of Italy represented in a tradition including the works of Goethe, Byron, Hawthorne, Freud & Mann.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.