LEADER 04595nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910777674503321 005 20230120051405.0 010 $a0-8232-4731-7 010 $a1-282-69868-0 010 $a9786612698682 010 $a0-8232-3868-7 010 $a0-8232-2631-X 010 $a1-4294-7902-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823238682 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475208 035 $a(EBL)476632 035 $a(OCoLC)727645676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081689 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119158 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081689 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10114283 035 $a(PQKB)10243981 035 $a(OCoLC)213305708 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14886 035 $a(DE-B1597)555097 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823238682 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239427 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197171 035 $a(OCoLC)1098672863 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476632 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239427 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476632 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475208 100 $a20060906d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheir other side$b[electronic resource] $esix American women and the lure of Italy /$fHelen Barolini 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-2630-1 311 0 $a0-8232-2629-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tMargaret Fuller, 1810?1850 --$tEmily Dickinson, 1830?1886 --$tConstance Fenimore Woolson, 1840?1894 --$tMabel Dodge Luhan, 1870?1962 --$tMarguerite Caetani, 1880?1963 --$tIris Origo, 1902?1988 --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a?Our lives are Swiss,? Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, ?So still?so cool.? But over the Alps, ?Italy stands the other side.? For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other women whose imaginations succumbed to the lure of Italy. Here Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy?s mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of ?Italy? and its gifts?in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered. Emily Dickinson traveled to Italy only in the imaginative genius of her verse. Margaret Fuller struggled alongside her Italian lover in the political revolutions that gave birth to the Italian Republic, while the novelist and short-story writer Constance Fennimore Woolson found her home in Venice and Florence. Here, too, is the flamboyant artist Mabel Dodge Luhan, entertaining at her villa near Florence; and Marguerite Chapin of Connecticut, who married an Italian prince and in Rome founded the premier literary review of the mid-century, Botteghe Oscure. Finally, here is Iris Cutting Origo, the Anglo-American heiress who, with her Italian nobleman husband, built a Tuscan estate, where she wrote acclaimed biographies?and created a refuge from Mussolini?s fascism. Linking these lives, Barolini shows, is the transforming catalyst of change in a new land. Their Other Side is a wise, warm, and deeply felt literary journey that brilliantly captures the enduring effects of Italy as a place, a culture, and an experience. 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xItalian influences 606 $aWomen authors, American$xHomes and haunts$zItaly 606 $aWomen authors, American$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aWomen authors, American$y20th century$vBiography 607 $aItaly$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xItalian influences. 615 0$aWomen authors, American$xHomes and haunts 615 0$aWomen authors, American 615 0$aWomen authors, American 676 $a820.9/3245 700 $aBarolini$b Helen$f1925-$0552495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777674503321 996 $aTheir other side$93810972 997 $aUNINA