Anna Jameson and the campagna romana

For travel writers on the Grand Tour, the campagna romana offered a geographical space for reflection and inspiration. Anna Jameson devotes a great deal of attention towards this area in her first publication Diary of an Ennuyée (1826), a semi-autobiographical travel diary with a fictional gothic subplot. This paper explores Jameson’s representation of the Roman countryside, and, given her later career as an art critic, offers some comparisons to artwork that visually complement the themes touched upon in the Diary, with particular attention towards the rovinismo movement and its philosophical implications from a Romantic perspective.