LEADER 04459oam 22006974a 450 001 9910552780403321 005 20220412121546.0 010 $a0-8142-7329-7 010 $z9780814209462$b(hardback) 010 $z9780814251171$b(paperback) 024 7 $a2027/heb33223 035 $a(CKB)3780000000104867 035 $a(OCoLC)747305403 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34555 035 $a(dli)HEB33223 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000838 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000104867 100 $a20031204d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRoman fever $edomesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing /$fAnnamaria Formichella Elsden 210 1$aColumbus :$cOhio State University Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiv, 155 p. ) 311 08$a0-8142-5117-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-150) and index. 327 $aA tale of import so divine : new women in the Old World -- I forgot myself : nation and identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's travel writing -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic -- Domesticity and nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento -- How can I write down the flowers? : representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited. 330 8 $aCritical studies have frequently acknowledged the nineteenth-century American fascination with Italy, but none specifically examines the impact of Italy on American women?s writing. A number of nineteenth-century women were privileged and daring enough to travel abroad, using a range of genres to respond discursively to their new surroundings. Annamaria Formichella Elsden?s study groups six women, whose writings were shaped by their encounters with Italy, to investigate women?s attempts to leave behind the domestic, in all the senses of that term. Popular nineteenth-century portrayals of women abroad often fell into two categories: the overly assertive ?feminist? and the hyper-feminine lady. Texts about Italy by American women move beyond these stereotypes. The author acknowledges that women wrote beyond the narrow boundaries ascribed to them by too much criticism. Elsden argues that the work of these women, which included Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne?s travel writings, Margaret Fuller?s news dispatches, Harriet Beecher Stowe?s novel Agnes of Sorrento, and Constance Fenimore Woolson?s and Edith Wharton?s short stories, challenged American individualist ideology while contributing to the patriotic rhetorical tradition. 517 3 $aDomesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing 606 $aHome in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmericans$zForeign countries$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen travelers$zUnited States$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 607 $aItaly 615 0$aHome in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen travelers$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.3099287 700 $aFormichella Elsden$b Annamaria$f1964-$01214801 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552780403321 996 $aRoman Fever$92804960 997 $aUNINA