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Frederick Burwick, Paul Douglass
ISBN: 9780230114487
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism.
Starting with a new understanding of what Romantic-era literature is--and who wrote it--the essays here reassess British Romanticism in light of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Alfieri, and contemporary Italian figures such as Paganini and the" improvvisatore" Tommaso Sgricci. The British absorption of Italian literature and culture was mediated by authors residing in Florence, Naples, Pisa, and Rome, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Byron, the Shelleys, and Hemans. Providing insight on topics from the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, this learned volume breaks new ground and significantly extends our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture.
| ISBN | 0230114482 | | Pages | 268 | | ISBN13 | 9780230114487
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 456 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 224 | | Publication date | 21 Sep 2011 | | Width (mm) | 143 | | DEWEY | 820.9007 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education |
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Wordsworth in Italy; M.Gaull Sitting in Dante's Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism; B.Graver Byron between Ariosto and Tasso; N.Halmi Byron and Alfieri; P.Cochran "More than Half Erased": Shelley, Dante, and Realms Without a Name; M.O'Neill Epipsychidion and the Renewable Life; S.Curran Mary Shelley's Valperga: Romance, Philology and Historiography; T.Rajan Appropriating Dante in Felicia Hemans's 'The Maremma': Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture; D.Saglia De Stael's Corinne and the Performance of Romanticism; D.Hoeveler Importing Improvvisatori: The Culture of Poetic Improvisation in 1820s England; A.Esterhammer Masaniello on the London Stage; F.Burwick Revisioning Rimini: Reading Dante in the Cockney School; J.N.Cox Syllables of the Sweet South: Figuring the Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period; T.Webb
'Burwick and Douglass are to e congratulated for marshalling an array of stimulating papers which add much to our understanding of the profound but paradoxical nature of the British Romantics' relationship with Italy.' - TLS  Be the first to write a customer review
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