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Examines the degree to which Germany's literary and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy. This study shows how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal resulted in disillusionment.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Spell of Italy
• Subtitle: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe
• Author: Richard Block
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780814332696
• ISBN: 9780814332696
• ID: 06390362
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Weight: 579 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. March 2006

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