'Derelictions of Contentment': On the locus amoenus in nineteenth-century landscape painting

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Abstract

A tracing of the representation of idyllic spaces in landscape art from John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to Edouard Manet and Georges Seurat, with a critique of the definition and tradition of 'locus amoenus' provided by Ernst Robert Curtius.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMutating Idylls : Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850-1930
RedaktørerCarsten Meiner
Antal sider23
UdgivelsesstedNew York
ForlagPeter Lang
Publikationsdato2019
Sider135-157
KapitelVI
ISBN (Trykt)9781433161681
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781433161704
StatusUdgivet - 2019
NavnStudies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Vol/bind139
ISSN1056-3970

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