Britain and Italy in the long eighteenth century : literary and art theories / edited by Rosamaria Loretelli and Frank O'Gorman.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter, and index.

Introduction / Rosamaria Loretelli and Frank O'Gorman -- Dealing with change in literary and art theories / Rosy Colombo -- Picturesque reconsidered--and preserved / Francesca Orestano -- Stranded in the present : modernity and De Ligne's 'Lettre de Parthenizza' / Bram van Oostveldt and Stijn Bussels -- A dialogue between the deaf and the dumb : aesthetic theories in England and Italy during the eighteenth century / Andrea Gatti -- The linguistic turn in the aesthetics of the Scottish enlightenment / Dugald Stewart [and] Daniele Niedda -- Hutcheson on beauty and virtue / Suzanne Marcuzzi -- The printed record of an oral tradition : Anna Gordon Brown's ballads / Ruth Perry -- The circulation of British books in eighteenth-century Pavia : work in progress / Lia Guerra -- Eighteenth-century Italian books in London : the presence of Italian regional publishing in the collections of the British Library / Anna Giulia Cavagna -- The space of time : 'Fleurons' as temporal markers in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' and Ugo Foscolo's 'Ortis' / Rosamaria Loretelli -- Imaginary voyages' aesthetic theories : towards a definition of the fantastic / Riccardo Capoferro -- Music, Don Quixote, and the novels of Miss Burney /Barbara Witucki -- Talking animals and the instruction of children : Dorothy Kilner's 'The Rational Brutes' / Silvia Granata -- Fielding and Sterne : reception, new debts and echoes in the Italian novel of the first hundred years / Daniela Mangione -- A "British" look at Italian poetry : Saverio Bettinelli, the 'English Letters' (1766), and the idea of cosmopolitanism / Emilio Sergio -- Sterne and Foscolo : the ironic sovereignty of the individual / Angelo Canavesi -- "Marble mad and very extravagant" : Henry Ince Blundell and the politics of cultural reputation in Britain and Italy / James Moore.

The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Frances Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century. Collectively they epitomise the concerns and approaches of scholars working on the long eighteenth century at this challenging and exciting time. In the absence of universally agreed, overarching interpretations of the cultural history of the long eighteenth century, these papers pave the way for the ultimate emergence of such explanations.

English.

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