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South (Paperback, 2nd Second Edition, Second Ed.)
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South (Paperback, 2nd Second Edition, Second Ed.)
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Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have
long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was
revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his
journey to Italy. Nietzsche took flight southwards to begin his
life anew, while DH Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun
in Sicily and Sardinia. But across the centuries, other outposts of
the South have provoked a similar obsession. The South Seas cast a
spell over figures such as Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Paul Gauguin. The American Deep South and the southermost
reaches of Latin America have been celebrated in the works of
writers as diverse as John Muir, Jack Kerouac and Jorge Luis
Borges. While the Great White South of the Antarctic has provided
the backdrop to the darkest imaginings of Coleridge, Poe and
Lovecraft. Even London, south of the river, is a place where
novelists compete today to stake out a literary territory of their
own. Moving between geography and mythology, literature and
history, South is the first book to look at all things Southern in
one volume. It examines the idea of the South as a symbol of
freedom and escape, as well as the depository for many of our
deepest unconscious fears and desires. It also charts the history
of the South as the chosen location for the utopian visions of the
North. From the beaches of Tahiti to the streets of Buenos Aires,
from Naples to New Orleans, Merlin Coverley's brilliant and
wide-ranging study throws light on the ways in which the idea of
the South, in all its forms, has come to exert such a powerful hold
on our collective imaginations.
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