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South (Hardcover, 2nd Second Edition, Second ed.)
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South (Hardcover, 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 to the south to begin his
life anew. D H Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun in
Sicily and Sardinia. Over many years, other versions of the South
have also held their own fascination. The South Seas cast a spell
over writers like Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, and
painters like Paul Gauguin. The American Deep South had (and has)
its own, particular literary tradition. The white empty spaces of
the frozen South of Antarctica were filled by the fantasies of
writers like Edgar Allan Poe and H P Lovecraft. Even London south
of the river is a place where novelists like Angela Carter and
Michael Moorcock have staked out literary territory. Moving between
geography and mythology, literature and history, this is the first
book to look at all things Southern in one volume. It examines the
South as a symbol of freedom and escape, the South as the location
of Northern visions of Utopia, and the South as the imagined site
of decadence, poverty and backwardness. From Tahiti to the streets
of Peckham, from Naples to New Orleans, Merlin Coverley's brilliant
and wide-ranging study throws light on how and why the idea of the
South, in all its forms, has come to exert such a powerful hold on
our imaginations.
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