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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817329103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-2608-7

1-5261-3222-2

1-5261-2607-9

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

821.7

Soggetti

Poets, English - Homes and haunts - Italy

Literature

Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian

Literature: history & criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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