Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy / Joseph Luzzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luzzi, Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Comparative literature--Italian and European.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--European and Italian.

European literature--18th century--Italian influences.

European literature.

European literature--19th century--Italian influences.

Italy--Civilization.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 294 p.) ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the "world's university" (Goethe) and "mother of arts" (Byron), the influence of Dante's Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters-Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni-profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.

Contents:

Italy's ambivalent modernity

Genus italicum

Did Italian romanticism exist?

Italy without Italians: Goethe, Stael, and Foscolo

The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism

Heirs of a dark wood

Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire

Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self

Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity

Corpus italicum

Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi

The body of Parini

Italy's broken heart.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-284) and index.

ISBN:

9786612352409

9781282352407

1282352407

9780300151787

0300151780

OCLC:

609896298