The Mediterranean passion : Victorians and Edwardians in the South
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The Mediterranean passion : Victorians and Edwardians in the South
Oxford University Press, 1988
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work describes how, in the period from 1830-1914, journeys to the Mediterranean became part of the British way of life and the British way of death. A revolution in transport enabled the middle classes to follow the aristocracy to the south in pursuit of culture, health, pleasure and spiritual inspiration. There are quotes from the letters and diaries of Matthew Arnold, Aubrey Beardsley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dickens and other writers and notables of the time, as well as those of merchants, clergymen, artists, teachers and missionaries - and contemporary writings in the form of many travel guidebooks. It describes how the British travelled - by road, by rail, by P & O, showing where they went, from Monte Carlo to the Holy Land, and why they went - pilgrimage, culture and health but also for hidden motives. The work explores the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of journeys, and attempts to expose the tension between the world that they discovered and the world they created.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Ways and means: journeys
- destinations. Part 2 Motives: pilgrimage
- culture
- health
- hidden motives. Part 3 Experience and attitude: the light of recognition
- civilization
- the way of life. Part 4 Attitude and experience: a wreck of paradise
- the gift of prophecy
- sacred art
- abominations of the Earth
- decline and fall
- death and resurrection.
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