Salvator Rosa in French Literature

From the Bizarre to the Sublime

James S. Patty

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9780813123301
• eBook ISBN: 9780813137360
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Crossing the Alps
• 2. Toward Romanticism
• 3. Enter Lady Morgan
• 4. Lady Morgan’s Legacy
• 5. Rosa and the Major Romantics
• 6. Criticism, Scholarship, and Journalism, 1824–ca. 1860
• 7. A Fading Beacon
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index