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Book SynopsisOffers a look at Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries focusing on a literary tradition. This book moves from a reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century - including readings of works by Byron, de Stael, Barrett Browning, and others - to an examination of Henry James's engagement with Europe.
Trade Review"Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the 'art romance'--the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality."--Julien Desrochers, Fabula "Haunted Museum offers a wide-ranging and imaginatively wrought genealogy of narratives surrounding voyages to the South of culture by canonical European and Anglo-America authors, reaching from Goethe through Forster, Proust, Mann, and Freud."--Jennifer Scappettone, Modern Philology
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface: The Gesture Back xiii INTORDUCTION: A Haunted Form 3 PART ONE: The Art Romance 19 CHAPTER 1: The Song of Mignon 21 CHAPTER 2: The Art-Romance Tradition 41 PART TWO: James in the Art Romance 83 CHAPTER 3: Henry James: Impossible Artists and the Pleasures of Patronage 85 CHAPTER 4: The Museum in the Romance: James with Hawthorne 113 CHAPTER 5: Speed, Desire, and the Museum: The Golden Bowl as Art Romance 149 PART THREE: Learned Longing: Modernism and the End of the Art Romance 171 CHAPTER 6: Freud on the Road to Rome 173 CHAPTER 7: Speed, Romance, Desire: Forster, Proust, and Mann in Italy 195 APPENDIX: James, Freud, and the End of Romance 227 Notes 239 Index 275
