The Imprisoned Traveler - Keith Crook

The Imprisoned Traveler

Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
266 Seiten
2019
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-163-7 (ISBN)
167,10 inkl. MwSt
The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, a Napoleonic “detainee” of 1803, wrote his travel writing classic in a bid for release from prison. Keith Crook uncovers his protests against Napoleon’s tyranny, concealed beneath his discerning art criticism and vivid impressions of Italians.
The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year “detention” came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813). Written as an (unsuccessful) appeal for release, praised by Forsyth’s contemporaries for its originality and fine taste, it is now recognized as a classic of Romantic period travel writing. Keith Crook, in this authoritative study, evokes the peculiar miseries that Forsyth endured in French prisons, reveals the significance of Forsyth’s encounters with scientists, poets, scholars, and ordinary Italians, and analyzes his judgments on Italian artworks. He uncovers how Forsyth’s allusiveness functions as a method of covert protest against Napoleon and reproduces the hitherto unpublished correspondence between the imprisoned Forsyth and his brother.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 

Keith Crook taught for many years at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, where he is now an Honorary Fellow, specializing in eighteenth-century literature. His main publications are on Samuel Johnson and Swift. He published the standard scholarly edition of Joseph Forsyth’s Italy in 2001.

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
 
Chapter 1             The historical moment of Forsyth’s Italy                                       
Chapter 2             Forsyth’s Prisons                                                                           
Chapter 3             The 1813 and the 1816 Versions of Forsyth’s Italy                       
Chapter 4             Talking to Italians                                                                           
Chapter 5             The Hidden Thoughts of Joseph Forsyth                                       
Chapter 6             Visual arts, architecture, and literature                                            
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The Letters of the Forsyth Brothers                                                                            
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Appendix 1          Works of Art Forsyth Saw
Appendix 2          A Sequence for the Passages Omitted from the First Edition of Forsyth’s Italy    
Acknowledgments                                                                                                      
Bibliography                                                                                                               
Index              

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Zusatzinfo 22 color illustrations, 12 b-w illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 463 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reiseführer Europa Großbritannien
Reiseführer Europa Irland
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-68448-163-5 / 1684481635
ISBN-13 978-1-68448-163-7 / 9781684481637
Zustand Neuware
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