Byron and Italy / edited by Alan Rawes and Diego Saglia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rawes, Alan, editor.

Saglia, Diego, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Homes and haunts--Italy.

Poets, English--Homes and haunts--Italy.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.

Contents:

Introduction / Alan Rawes and Diego Saglia

1. The literature of Italy in Byron's poems of 1817 / Nicholas Halmi

2. Byron's ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians / Gioia Angeletti

3. From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron's Scottish identity in Italy / Jonathan Gross

4. The garden of the world: Byron and the geography of Italy / Mauro Pala

5. 'Something I have seen or think it possible to see': Byron and Italian art in Ravenna / Jane Stabler

6. 'Something sensible to grasp at': Byron and Italian Catholicism / Bernard Beatty

7. The politics of the unities: tragedy and the Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni / Arnold Anthony Schmidt

8. Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement / Peter W. Graham

9. This 'still exhaustless mine': De Staël, Goethe and Byron's Roman lyricism / Alan Rawes

10. Playing with history: Byron's Italian dramas / Mirka Horová

11. 'Where shall I turn me?' Italy and irony in Beppo and Don Juan / Diego Saglia

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elma Dangerfield, 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 5, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526126085

1526126087

9781526132222

1526132222

9781526126078

1526126079

OCLC:

1044958988