Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : : An Annotated Anthology / / Manfred Pfister, editor.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Pfister, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterda : : BRILL,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Fatal Gift of Beauty
• ISBN: 9004650857
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manfred Pfister, editor.

This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonnée it presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.