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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.
- Americans--Italy--History--19th century.
- Americans.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Italy--Description and travel.
- Italy.
- Rome (Italy)--In literature.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--In art.
- Italy--In literature.
- Italy--In art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: RICHARD H. MILLINGTON 9
- Where Is Hawthorne's Rome?
- The Marble Faun and the Cultural Space of Middle-Class Leisure
- ROBERT K. MARTIN 28
- "An Awful Freedom":
- Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival
- KRISTIE HAMILTON 41
- Fauns and Mohicans:
- Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity
- NANCY PROCTOR 60
- The Purloined Studio:
- The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
- JOHN CARLOS ROWE 73
- 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
- LELAND S. PERSON 107
- Falling into Heterosexuality:
- Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson
- PRISCILLA L. WALTON 140
- Roman Springs and Roman Fevers:
- James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease
- ADAM PARKES 159
- Henry James's Italian Hours and the "Ruskinian Contagion"
- BRIGITTE BAILEY I75
- Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome
- SUSAN M. GRIFFIN 191
- The Black Robe of Romance:
- Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest
- ROBERT MILDER 206
- "The Connecting Link of Centuries":
- Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1 8S , 6 8S 7
- ROBERT S. LEVINE 226
- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587294044
- 1587294044
- OCLC:
- 56109525
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