The "grand tour" and the "Risorgimento": Italy's romantic imaginary in French literature

Authors

  • Celina Maria Moreira de Mello Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v17i33.33009

Keywords:

grand tour, pictorial descriptions, Risorgimento, French Romanticism

Abstract

This essay will examine some accounts of French travelers-writers of the nineteenth century, which, in the tradition of the grand tour, described in textual pictures and ecfrasis an imaginary of plastic beauty related to Italian scenes and landscapes. The histo­rical context of the struggle for Italian unification is highlighted in some passages from Chateaubriand’s Voyage en Italie, Stendhal’s Promenades dans Rome and Theophile Gautier’s Voyage en Italie, pointing out the construction of the look at the other according to different aesthetic - neoclassical, modern and ro­mantic -, various pictorial genres - history painting, genre painting and landscapes - and literary genres: letters and memoirs, guides and travel stories. As a means to emphasize the relationship between fictional and pictorial art and literature and the projection of political contexts, in counterpoint there is a different, “another” look, that of George Sand and Alexandre Dumas.

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Author Biography

Celina Maria Moreira de Mello, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

É professora titular de Língua e Literatura Francesas da Universida­de Federal do Rio de Janeiro, atua no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras Neolatinas. É bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq com o projeto Le Monde dramatique; imprensa, imagens e imaginários do palco romântico. Atualmente exerce a função de Co­ordenadora dos Cursos de Pós-graduação do Centro de Letras e Ar­tes da UFRJ e de editora da Revista Interfaces. Coordena os grupos de pesquisa PRISMA (UFRJ) e, juntamente com o Professor Pedro Paulo Catharina, o grupo ARS, Arte, Realidade, Sociedade (FBN). É membro do GT de Teoria do Texto Poético da ANPOLL, e do Conse­lho Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa e Editoração da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional. Publicou, entre outros ensaios, pela editora 7Letras, A lite­ratura francesa e a pintura (2004).

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Published

2012-12-31

How to Cite

Mello, C. M. M. de. (2012). The "grand tour" and the "Risorgimento": Italy’s romantic imaginary in French literature. Gragoatá, 17(33). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v17i33.33009

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 33 (2012): Pathways of contemporary

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Literature Articles

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