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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786246303321

Titolo

Imagining Italy [[electronic resource] ] : Victorian writers and travellers / / edited by Catherine Waters, Michael Hollington, and John Jordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-4438-2461-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WatersCatherine

HollingtonMichael

JordanJohn O

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

English literature - Italian influences

Travelers' writings, British - 19th century - History and criticism

Italy - Foreign public opinion, British - History - 19th century

Italy In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART TWO; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART THREE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England's paramount novelist by studying his personal, political and literary relation to the foreign country he loved best of all of those he visited. Its focus is wider and its scope more ambitious and speculative. Without in any way leaving Dickens or his writings about Italy behind, the attempt here is to approach the Victo...