The Imprisoned Traveler : : Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy.
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, R...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 22 color illustrations, 12 b-w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Historical Moment of Forsyth’s Italy
- 2 Forsyth’s Prisons
- 3 The 1813 and the 1816 Versions of Forsyth’s Italy
- 4 Talking to Italians
- 5 The Hidden Thoughts of Joseph Forsyth
- 6 Visual Arts, Architecture, and Literature
- The Letters of the Forsyth Brothers
- Appendix A: Works of Art Forsyth Saw
- Appendix B: A Sequence for the Passages Omitted from the First Edition of Forsyth’s Italy
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index