'Derelictions of Contentment': On the locus amoenus in nineteenth-century landscape painting
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A tracing of the representation of idyllic spaces in landscape art from John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to Edouard Manet and Georges Seurat, with a critique of the definition and tradition of 'locus amoenus' provided by Ernst Robert Curtius.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Mutating Idylls : Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850-1930 |
| Editors | Carsten Meiner |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Publication date | 2019 |
| Pages | 135-157 |
| Chapter | VI |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781433161681 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781433161704 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Series | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
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| Volume | 139 |
| ISSN | 1056-3970 |
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