| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 191 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of contents; off the beaten track; towards a history of digression; letters from london; from clarissa's sensibility in samuelrichardson's novel to the romanticdream of self-realizationin ugo foscolo's ortis; periphery and centre in the evolutionof the novelistic genre in venice; themargins at the centre; themarginal and the mainstreamas aesthetic categories in eighteenthcenturythought; from "gothicatrocities" to objectsofaesthetic appreciation; tiberio cavallo; autonomy and marginality in foreignartists' circles in rome (c. 1760-1800). |
| Summary |
The relationship between the cultural Centre and cultural Margins has fascinated scholars for generations. Who, or what, determines what shall constitute the 'Centre' of a culture, its sacred and canonical forms and substance, and what the Margins? There are significant examples of the Margins of one generation moving to become the Centre of another. These are more than mere shifts of fashion and represent nothing less than a seismic cultural shift. How, and in what circumstances, can such a ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Relations -- Italy -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Relations. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Italy -- Relations -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
O'Gorman, Frank, editor.
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Guerra, Lia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Centre and the margins in eighteenth-century British and Italian cultures 1443849529 (OCoLC)856567191 |
| ISBN |
9781443864404 (electronic book) |
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1443864404 (electronic book) |
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1306992397 (e-book) |
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9781306992398 (e-book) |
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1443849529 |
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9781443849524 |
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