Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
5. 1. Shelley Burning: The Mediterranean and British Culture 1
6. 2. The Antique, the Noble and the Stupendous: The Turn to the Mediterranean, 1740–1800 23
7. 3. The Distorted Mirror: The South in British Culture during the Age of Byron, 1800–30 65
8. 4. Blue Solitudes: The Mediterranean and the Shaping of Victorian Britain, 1830–60 117
9. 5. An Enchanted Garden: The Mediterranean and the Aesthetics of High Victorianism, 1860–90 165
10. 6. The Cult of Beauty: The Mediterranean and British Modernism, 1890–1918 208
11. 7. That Splendid Enclosure: Meanings of the Mediterranean 225 from Rupert Brooke to Damien Hirst 241
12. NOTES 279
13. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 313
14. INDEX 322