LEADER 03312nam 2200445 450 001 9910746969903321 005 20231107152555.0 010 $a3-031-36421-X 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771305 035 $a(CKB)28465030400041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771305 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928465030400041 100 $a20231107d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aItaly in the American Imagination /$fIan J. Bickerton 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (xxxiii, 329 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly color) 311 0 $a9783031364204 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notes -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Our Imagination -- Imagination, the United States and Italy -- A Brief History -- Defining Italy and the United States -- Chapter 2: The American Founders and Rome -- Chapter 3: Italian Music and the American Imagination in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4: Americans Imagining Italy, 1800-1865 -- Imagined Rome -- Chapter 5: Post-Civil War Imaginings of Italy -- Renaissance Architecture in the United States -- Cleveland, John Hay and the American Imagination -- Rosario Candela, New York, and Imagined Italy -- Chapter 6: Americans in Italy, 1865-1914 -- Notes -- Chapter 7: American Art Collectors and Their Imaginings -- Collecting Italian Art Prior to the Civil War -- Post-Civil War Collectors -- Chapter 8: Italians Imagined in the U.S. 1900-1940 -- Italy in U.S. Literature Prior to World War II -- Ezra Pound -- Thomas Stearns Eliot -- Ernest Hemingway and Italian Food and the American Imagination -- Chapter 9: Twentieth-Century Opera and the American Imagination -- Chapter 10: Italy Imagined in World War II and Beyond -- Italian-Americans in Post-War United States -- Chapter 11: Imagined Italy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- Hollywood and the American Imagination -- Italian Fashion and the American Imagination -- Italian Architecture and the American Imagination -- Chapter 12: Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aIn this comprehensive study, Ian J. Bickerton explores the fluid and multi-dimensional interactions Americans have with Italian culture and society, offering a new and novel way of considering the influence of Italy upon the United States. Bickerton argues that a true understanding of the United States, must begin with an examination of how its citizens imagine themselves. He demonstrates that throughout U.S. history, America has been deeply tied to the Italian imaginary. 607 $aItaly$xForeign public opinion, American 607 $aItaly$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xItalian influences 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zItaly 676 $a303.48273045 700 $aBickerton$b Ian J.$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746969903321 996 $aItaly in the American Imagination$93573313 997 $aUNINA