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