Provence and the British Imagination

• Main Author: A cura di: Claire Davison (auth)
• Other Authors: A cura di: Nathalie Vanfasse (auth), A cura di: Caroline Patey (auth), A cura di: Béatrice Laurent (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Ledizioni 2013
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Although it resonates today with lavender fields, sunny heritage locations and the gentrified memory of Paul Cézanne's pictorial turbulence, Provence has not always been the attractive territory of pacified leisure and festival culture. Since the seventeenth century, indeed, the region has ins...