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Unfolding the south : nineteenth-century British women writers and artists in Italy / edited by Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- English prose literature--Women authors.
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Women travelers--Italy--History--19th century.
- Women travelers.
- British--Italy--History--19th century.
- British.
- Relations.
- Women artists.
- History.
- Italy.
- Women artists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women authors, English--Biography.
- Women authors, English.
- Italy--In literature.
- Great Britain--Relations--Italy.
- Great Britain.
- Italy--Relations--Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
- Summary:
- Unfolding the South presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. Responding to recent developments in the fields of literary criticism and art history, the book covers a stimulating range of canonical and non-canonical writers and artists who were inspired by Italy's monumental past and revolutionary struggle for identity. Eleven essays offer new perspectives on well-known figures such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot and Mary Shelley, together with discussions of writers and artists of newly-emerging importance such as Vernon Lee, Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Marie Spartali Stillman and Jane Benham Hay. The essays reassess the inter-relationship between women, art and the Italian peninsula, engaging directly and indirectly with the problematic legacy of de Stael's controversial Corinne, or Italy (1807). Unfolding the South offers an unprecedented generic scope, including travel writing, fiction, art history, poetry, journalism and epistolarity, while topics discussed include aesthetics, politics, religion, the Renaissance and the Risorgimento, social history, art history, spiritualism and science.
- Contents:
- 1 Devotion and diversion: early nineteenth-century British women travellers in Italy and the Catholic Church / Jane Stabler 15
- 2 Casa Guidi Windows: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the poetry of citizenship / Richard Cronin 35
- 3 Casa Guidi Windows: spectacle and politics in 1851 / Isobel Armstrong 51
- 4 Risorgimenti: spiritualism, politics and Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Alison Chapman 70
- 5 Acts of union: Theodosia Garrow Trollope and Frances Power Cobbe on the Kingdom of Italy / Esther Schor 90
- 6 Liberty, equality and sorority: women's representations of the Unification of Italy / Pamela Gerrish Nunn 110
- 7 The difficulty of Italy: translation and transmission in George Eliot's / Romola Nicola Trott 137
- 8 'The old Tuscan rapture': the response to Italy and its art in the work of Marie Spartali Stillman / Jan Marsh 159
- 9 'Amiable but determined autocracy': Margaret Oliphant, Venice, and the inheritance of Ruskin / Francis O'Gorman 183
- 10 Vernon Lee and the ghosts of Italy / Catherine Maxwell 201
- 11 Resurrections of the body: women writers and the idea of the Renaissance / Angela Leighton 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719061296
- 071906130X
- OCLC:
- 51290183
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