Title: Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy
First published: 2008
Description: "In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination." "The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the "world's university" (Goethe) and "mother of arts" (Byron), the influence of Dante's Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters - Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni - profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Civilization, Comparative Literature, European and Italian, European literature, History and criticism, Italian and European, Italian influences, Italian literature, Literature, Comparative, Italian literature, history and criticism, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century, Italy, civilization
Places: Italy
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: PQ4050.A2 L89 2008