Review of Gilbert Bonifas & Martine Monacelli (eds.), Southern Horrors: Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, xxv-215 p.
“Nothing is more difficult than for a foreigner to give a correct account of the state of a country – its laws, its manners, its customs; – the first often so different in their operation from what outwardly appears; the latter, never fully understood, Proteus-like, assume a thousand contradictory...
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2016
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| Sažetak: | “Nothing is more difficult than for a foreigner to give a correct account of the state of a country – its laws, its manners, its customs; – the first often so different in their operation from what outwardly appears; the latter, never fully understood, Proteus-like, assume a thousand contradictory appearances and elude investigation.” Quite unexpectedly, Mary Shelley’s remark in a February 1843 letter on Tuscany perfectly applies to the collection of essays presented by Gilbert Bonifas, Emer... |
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