Salvator Rosa In French Literature

by Patty, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780813123301
• ISBN10: 0813123305
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

" Salvator Rosa (1615--1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa's tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Author Biography

James S. Patty is professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
1. Crossing the Alps	7	(32)
2. Toward Romanticism	39	(28)
3. Enter Lady Morgan	67	(34)
4. Lady Morgan's Legacy	101	(26)
5. Rosa and the Major Romantics	127	(32)
6. Criticism, Scholarship, and journalism, 1824-ca. 1860	159	(38)
7. A Fading Beacon	197	(18)
Conclusion	215	(8)
Notes	223	(30)
Bibliography	253	(8)
Index	261