Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Rambles in Germany and Italy
Author: Mary ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Revisiting Italy
Author: Rebecca ButlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000381625
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). Revisiting Italy brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign. Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials. Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.
'Our Own Fair Italy'
Author: Kathryn WalchesterPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110285
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This study proposes that in their writing about the region, women travel writers made a significant contribution to the changing representation of Italy and to their own changing reputation as professional writers. Between 1800 and 1844 there was a significant shift in the way in which Italy was both perceived and discussed as the tradition of the 'Grand Tour' waned and new types of travellers made trips to Europe. Encouraged by changes in the cost, ease and motivations for travel, unprecedented numbers of women travelled to Italy and published their accounts. Focussing on the pivotal works of five women writers - Mariana Starke, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Eaton, Anna Jameson and Lady Morgan - this book assesses the developments made by these women to a number of genres of travel writing and to the political and aesthetic representation of Italy.
Romantic 'Anglo-Italians'
Author: Maria SchoinaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902539
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning, by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of social and political reform. Schoina's emphasis on the political implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to uncover their complex ideological underpinnings. Recognizing that Mary Shelley was instrumental in conceptualizing the Romantics' discourse of acculturation expands our understanding of this phenomenon, as does Schoina's convincing case for the importance of gender as a major determinant of Mary Shelley's construction of Anglo-Italianness.
Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library
Author: Romantic Geographies
Author: Amanda GilroyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057854
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances.All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the priveleged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.