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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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"This volume, which brings together several of the most authoritative scholars in the field, represents a landmark in the study of Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations in the Romantic period. It succeeds brilliantly in combining two very different but complementary virtues. On the one hand it revisits, in unexpected and illuminating ways, well-chartered territory such as the Romantic poets reading of Dante, their experience of the Grand Tour, their perception of Italian history and of modern Italy. On the other hand it opens up new areas of cultural investigation reflecting recent approaches to the canons and contexts of British Romanticism: these include the influence of Italian theatre, visual arts, grand opera, improvisational performance, not to mention the Italian language itself, on early nineteenth-century English literature and drama. Challenging new attention is paid to relatively non-canonical authors, among them hitherto little-discussed women writers and illegitimate dramatists. Dante and Italy in British Romanticism throws much-needed light on a crucial period of political and social transformation in Italy, as seen from the critical but sympathetic viewpoint of contemporary British intellectuals, reaffirming the centrality of Dante s role in the formation and interpretation of Italy s late and contradictory identity as a nation." - Lilla Maria Crisafulli, University of Bologna
About the authors
PAUL DOUGLASS is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University, California, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dante and Italy in British Romanticism
Editors: Frederick Burwick, Paul Douglass
Series Title: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119970
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11448-7Published: 21 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29593-7Published: 21 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11997-0Published: 26 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2691-1256
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 258
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature