L’Italie post-romantique : entre arts, histoire et ethnologie. Trois postures et constructions d’identité : Flaubert, Du Camp et Colet
The fashion for the ‘Grand Tour’ had made Italy a privileged destination. For the post-Romantic generation who discovered the peninsula in the middle of the 19th century, just before or during the Risorgimento, it was a cultural, historical and ethnological expedition. Flaubert, Du Camp and Colet ta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Clermont Auvergne
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| Series: | Viatica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/2548 |
| Summary: | The fashion for the ‘Grand Tour’ had made Italy a privileged destination. For the post-Romantic generation who discovered the peninsula in the middle of the 19th century, just before or during the Risorgimento, it was a cultural, historical and ethnological expedition. Flaubert, Du Camp and Colet take the opportunity in their travel stories or essays to idealize the country and offer a real re-creation of it that founds their aesthetics or, more simply, their way of being a man – or woman – of letters. |
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| ISSN: | 2275-0827 |