Engaging Italy : American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks / Etta M. Madden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madden, Etta M., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Italy--History--19th century.

Women.

Americans--Italy--History--19th century.

Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]

Summary:

Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Introduction

Men of Poetry, Politics, and Power: A Series of Fortunate Events

Armchair Travels and Types of Travelers

Circumscribed Women and Later Vocations

Italy as "Museum" and "Spectacle": Actors and Agents

Part I. Portraits of Diversity

Chapter 1 Backstories of Diversity

Caroline Crane Marsh: Literary Activist and Ambasciatrice

Emily Bliss Gould: Glimpsing Garibaldi's Redshirts, Remembering Sunday Schools

Anne Hampton Brewster: Escaping Family, Chasing Charlotte

Chapter 2 Vignettes of Diversity

Emily Bliss Gould: A Bold Beggar

Caroline Crane Marsh: Library Lover and Activist

Anne Hampton Brewster: Mr. Kate Cromo

Diversity in Self-Presentation: A Summary View

Chapter 3 Summer of the Roman Question: A Window on Transnational Networks

Part II. Circuits and Networks

Chapter 4 Revising Daisy Miller: The Story of "Miss Jones"

Abroad Alone: Myths and Realities of Independence

Articulated Fears: The Malinconia

She "Must Do Something": Miss Jones as Activist

Chapter 5 "The Daily Ordinary": Language, Lodgings and Hostessing

Chapter 6 Circulating People, Circulating Texts: Associational Life

Public Texts and Personal Relations: "For Queen Anne"

A Wreath of Stray Leaves: Published Textual Networks

Il popolo romano: Varieties of Formal Associations

Part III. Varieties of Utopian Experiences

Chapter 7 Utopian Visions, Reform, and Religious Beliefs

Varieties of Religious Experiences: Miracles, Mariology, and Missions

Brewster: Miracles, Mysticism, and the Vatican

Marsh: Mariology without Mysticism

Gould: Avoiding Miracles, Engaging in Missions

Chapter 8 Emily Bliss Gould: "Works and Wants"

Travel Writing, 1866-67: Hours at Home and The Overland Monthly.

"A Ways and Means Committee"

Gothic Riffs on Earthly Realities

Heavenly and Eternal Visions

Political Visions in "Gossip Abroad"

Published Documents of the Italo-American Schools

Private Letters and Their Political Meanings

Chapter 9 Anne Hampton Brewster: A Catholic Correspondent Negotiates New Rome

Anxieties of Arrival-Creature Comforts Compromised

Nero Nardi and the Vatican Council

The APOSTATE!: Negotiating Roman Catholicism

Women Loving Women: A Necessary Circle of Admirers

Brewster's Life Alone: Utopian and Dystopian Visions

Chapter 10 Caroline Crane Marsh: "The Power of Doing a Great Service"

Surrogate Motherhood: The Power and Service of Letting Go

Serving Schools: Fundraising at Home and Abroad

Transformations of a Reformer and Litterateur

"In Vain Have I Labored": Ideas of Italian Reform Revised

Coda: Residual Ripples

Hidden Lives &amp

Unvisited Tombs

Appendix A: "To ____ ____."

Appendix B: "For Queen Anne"

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Madden, Etta M. Engaging Italy

ISBN:

9781438488448

OCLC:

1291605236