Mutating Idylls (eBook)

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.