Provence and the British Imagination

• Other Authors: Davison, Claire (Editor), Laurent, Béatrice (Editor), Patey, Caroline (Editor), Vanfasse, Nathalie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Milano Ledizioni 2013
• Series: Di/Segni
• Subjects: European history; Provence; British culture; Modernism
• 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...