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Roman holidays : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy / edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Italian influences.
- American literature.
- Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, American.
- American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Americans.
- History.
- Italy.
- Americans--Italy--History--19th century.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- United States.
- Italy--Description and travel.
- Rome (Italy)--In literature.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--In art.
- Italy--In literature.
- Italy--In art.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Where is Hawthorne's Rome? The marble faun and the cultural space of middle-class leisure / Richard H. Millington
- "An awful freedom": Hawthorne and the anxieties of the carnival / Robert K. Martin
- Fauns and Mohicans: narratives of extinction and Hawthorne's aesthetic of modernity / Kristie Hamilton
- The purloined studio: [the] woman sculptor as phallic ghost in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Nancy Proctor
- Hawthorne's ghost in James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in The marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and his friends / John Carlos Rowe
- Falling into heterosexuality: sculpting male bodies in The marble faun and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person
- Roman springs and Roman fevers: James, gender, and transnational dis-ease / Priscilla L. Walton
- Henry James's Italian hours and the "Ruskinian contagion" / Adam Parkes
- Fuller, Hawthorne, and imagining urban spaces in Rome / Brigitte Bailey
- The black robe of romance: Hawthorne's shadow and Howells's Italian priest / Susan M. Griffin
- "The connecting link of centuries": Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 / Robert Milder
- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome / Robert S. Levine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0877457824
- OCLC:
- 47018513
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