LEADER 03219nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910964987903321 005 20250703003913.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000523022 035 $a(OCoLC)213305792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10180327 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281236 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11247300 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281236 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10318973 035 $a(PQKB)10886026 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110346 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110346 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10180327 035 $a(OCoLC)922977695 035 $a(BIP)11851682 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000523022 100 $a20070228d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLady Morgan's Italy $eAnglo-Irish sensibilities and Italian realities /$fby Donatella Abbate Badin 210 $aBethesda, MD $cAcademica Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 1 $aIrish research series ;$v50 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-933146-08-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aItaly : a composite text -- Biographical note -- Ideologies -- Perception of Italian history -- The grand tour and the genres of travel writing -- The Italian other -- Heroes and villains -- Natural beauties and cultural riches of Italy -- Life and afterlife of Italy. 330 $aAn Irish actor's daughter, Sydney Owenson by dint of great charm and intelligence (as well as literary talent) not only became the wife of Sir Charles Morgan but a popular novelist and social critic in Regency and Early Victorian England. With her friends Byron and Shelley she shared a great love and interest in Italy. Her guide to Italy (ITALY, 1822) was a landmark of political empathy and understanding for a post Napoleonic Italy in the throes of repression. Persecution and obscurantist rule whether by Hapsburg, Papal or Bourbon auspices was described in depth. Her guide was wildly successful and used by generations of Anglophone visitors and pilgrims. Professor Badin discusses the importance of Morgan's fiction and belletrism in developing empathy and interest in Italy's sufferings and woes. She investigates Morgan's Low Church Evangelistic pieties and her dislike of Papal power, privilege and practice. Comparisons both direct and indirect with Ireland and the Irish are discussed at length as are Morgan's acute class sensibilities and prejudices as well as her Irish patriotism. Morgan's role in the emergence of Italian Romanticism and her textual strategies in creating polyphonic texts (codes, illusions, refutations) are described at length. 410 0$aIrish research series ;$v50. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 607 $aItaly$xIn literature 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.7 700 $aAbbate Badin$b Donatella$01830359 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964987903321 996 $aLady Morgan's Italy$94400649 997 $aUNINA