Keith Crook

The Imprisoned Traveler

Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781684481620
• ISBN-10: 1684481627
• Artikelnr.: 56734172

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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                                            
                                    ——————
The Letters of the Forsyth
Brothers                                                                            
                                   ——————
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