Mutating Idylls

Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Autorentext

Carsten Meiner is Professor of French Literature and Culture at the University of Copenhagen. He earned his PhD in philosophy and aesthetics from the Université de Paris VIII in 2001. His research concerns "commonplaces" topoi in modern French literature. He has authored and co-edited books in both French and English.

Inhalt

Foreword Carsten Meiner and Peter Borum: Introduction: The History and Theory of the Locus Amoenus Maria Damkjær: Landscape on Pause: Strong Feelings and the Locus Amoenus in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Frode Lerum Boasson: Pleasure Is Not Fun: The Locus Amoenus in Knut Hamsun Katrine Helene Andersen: The Locus Amoenus in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature: From Meadows to Gardens: Doña Perfecta as a Micro-representation of a Topological Development Pia Schwarz Lausten: In the Shade of the Chestnut Trees: The Locus Amoenus in Giovanni Verga's Writing Michael Høxbro Andersen: Defective Pleasant Places: The Locus Amoenus in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Charles Lock: Derelictions of Contentment: The Locus Amoenus in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting Birthe Hoffmann: The Locus Amoenus as a (Hetero-)utopia of Human Existence in Theodor Fontane's Novel On Tangled Paths Julio Jensen: Locus Amoenus and the Modern Spirit. A Topos of Melancholy in Three Spanish-Language Authors: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Luis Cernuda, and Julio Cortázar Carsten Meiner: Naturalizing Deviant Pleasure: Loci Amoeni in Zola Contributors.