Ugo Foscolo and English culture
By: Sandra Parmegiani
Series: Italian perspectives -- 20; Italian perspectives -- 20.
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781906540609
Subjects: Italian literature; Criticism and interpretation; English influences
Description: The history of literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo. In this historicized reading of Foscolo's correspondence, Parmegiani reveals the rich and complex relations between the Italian writer and the literature, philosophy and culture of 18th- and 19th-century England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Brief chronology of the life of Ugo Foscolo; title: Introduction; title: Stern's presence (and absence) in the Epistolario: The polyphonic nature of Foscolo's letters; A Sentimental Journey and Foscolo's epistolary narrative; Asserting Didimo's voice; Political flux and the quixotic self; The English exile: a paradigmatic shift; title: Foscolo, reader of Locke; title: Foscolo and Hume; title: 'Et penitus fato divisos orbe Britannos': British culture in the Epistolario; title: Conclusions.