Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime

Authors

James S. Patty, Vanderbilt University

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Description

"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.

Publication Date

2005

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

City

Lexington, KY

ISBN

978-0-8131-2330-1

eISBN

978-0-8131-7193-7 (pdf version)

eISBN

978-0-8131-3736-0 (epub version)

Keywords

Salvator Rosa, French literature

Disciplines

French and Francophone Literature

Recommended Citation

Patty, James S., "Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime" (2005). Studies in Romance Languages Series. 2.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/srls_book/2