British romanticism and Italian literature : translating, reviewing, rewriting / edited by Laura Bandiera and Diego Saglia.

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TextSeries: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 92.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1423791215
9781423791218

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: British romanticism and Italian literature.DDC classification:

820.9/145 22

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PR146 .B75 2005eb

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Contents:

Introduction: 'Home of the Arts! Land of the Lyre!': Scholarly Approaches and Fictional Myths of Italian Culture in British Romanticism; SETTING THE SCENE: LITERARY AND CULTURAL INTERSECTIONS; BUILDING THE PAST: RE-APPROACHING THE ITALIAN LITERARY HERITAGE; LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY ITALY: MAPPING THE PRESENT; Index.

Summary: Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This v.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This v.

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