Romantic 'Anglo-Italians'
Subtitle: configurations of identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle
By: by Maria Schoina.
Series: The nineteenth century series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754662921
Subjects: Romanticism -- Great Britain.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; British -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.; Acculturation -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.; Acculturation in literature.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1789-1900.; Italy -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: roots, routes and hyphens: reconsidering romantic identity. "A well-informed, clever, and active race"; value: Culture, place, identity, politics; value: Italy and the British romantics; value: Anglo-Italian spaces and metaphors in the cultural discourse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; value: A tale of two countries - Cities of the mind: Venice and London in late eighteenth-century Capriccio paintings; value: Melancholy feelings expressed "with Italian imagination" in  Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy; value: Mary Shelley, Anglo-Italicus; value: Between Italy and England; value: Female self-assertion and the politics of distinction in the reviews and in rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843; value: "My heart is all meridian": Byron's poetics of acculturation; value: "To see men and things as they are": the quest for authenticity in post-Napoleonic travel writing; value: Byron's negotiating identities in Childe Harold's pilgrimage; value: "To the po. June 2nd 1819", Beppo and in the prophecy of Dante; value: Rooting the Anglo-Italian: place and identity in the Pisan Circle; value: The cultural geography of the Pisan Circle: a revisionist reading; value: Percy Shelley's "elective affinities": the Pisan poems and the review of Sgricci's improvisation; value: The Anglo-Italian liberal: Leigh Hunt's Letters from abroad; value: Epilogue: (post)romantic reflections on acculturation.