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In half a century, then, and particularly in the twenty years since the opening of the Continent after Waterloo, the range of response to Italy in English literature had been considerably extended, and the dominant image of Italy in contemporary writing radically changed. The next major revaluation of Italy by English writers came around the mid-century, notably in the works of Ruskin and the Brownings, rejecting Romantic sensationalism, and seeking new modes of experiencing Italy, more relevant to the needs of a rapidly changing society. The available picture of Italy, however, by no means remained static between Lytton’s Pompeii and Ruskin’s Modern Painters, and before going on to consider Ruskin’s importance to our subject we must consider three very different contributions to the developing apprehension of the South: those of Landor, Turner and George Sand.
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Chapter 6
Both R. H.Super, Walter Savage Landor (London, 1957) p. 39
M. Elwin, Landor: A Replevin (London, 1958) p.79 mention this connection with Greath’eed, but neither seems aware of The Florence Miscellany and they offer no suggestions on whether Greatheed may have helped arouse Landor’s interest in Italy.
T. E. Whelby & S. Wheeler (ed.), The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor (London, 1927–36) vol. xi, p. 50.
E. T. Cook & A. Weddcrburn, Works of John Ruskin (London, 1903–12) vol. xxv, p. 295. (All references to Ruskin arc to this edition).
G. Reynolds, Turner (London, 1969) p. 110.
See A. Dubuisson, Richard Parkes Bonington: His Life & Work tr. C. E. Hughes (London, 1924) Ch. 8.
A. J. Finberg, In Venice With Turner (London, 1930) pp. 79–80; for the 1832 visit, see Reynolds, op. cit., p. 160.
Correspondance cd. G. Lubin, vol. ii (Paris, 1966) p. 527. Letter of 6 March 1834.
See A. Poli, L’ Italie dans la vie et dans l’ oeuvre de George Sand (Paris, 1960) passim.
See C. P. Brand, Torquato Tasso; A Study of The Poet & of His Contribution to English Literature (Cambridge, 1965) ch. 8.
Later visitors who followed her there were warned that the modern inhabitants of the house were not hospitable: see W. D. Howells, Venetian Life (London, 1866)p. 220.
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Churchill, K. (1980). Developments in the 1830s. In: Italy and English Literature 1764–1930. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04642-3_6
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