LEADER 05843nam 22007455 450 001 9910986126303321 005 20250305120742.0 010 $a9783031617010 010 $a3031617010 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-61701-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31946531 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31946531 035 $a(CKB)37783651800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-61701-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937783651800041 100 $a20250305d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish Women Travellers in the Long Nineteenth Century $eWith Italy as Their Muse /$fedited by Marilyn D. Button, Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (457 pages) 225 1 $aBritain and the World,$x2947-7190 311 08$a9783031617003 311 08$a3031617002 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction; Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Part I. Women Travellers from the French Revolution to The Napoleonic Era -- Chapter 2: Hamilton?s Wife and Nelson?s Paramour: Emma, Lady Hamilton in Naples; Cheryl C. D. Hughes -- Chapter 3: Breaking New Ground: The Italian Experience of Elizabeth Cavendish, Second Duchess of Devonshire; Ronald J. Weber -- Part II. Entrepreneurial Journalists in Emerging Italy -- Chapter 4: "My country women would rather hear": Hester Lynch Piozzi?s Regendering of the Grand Tour; Thomas J. Prasch -- Chapter 5: Love, Dirt, and Superstition among the Ruins: Charlotte Eaton?s Protestant View of Catholic Rome; Renée Jeanne Schlueter -- Chapter 6: Inventing the Travel Guide: Mariana Starke?s Advice for the Independent Traveler; Nigel à Brassard -- Chapter 7: From ?Flying Visit? to Final Home: Mrs Trollope in Florence; Marilyn D. Button -- Part III. Literary Lights in Risorgimento Italy -- Chapter 8: Rambles in Il Bel Paese: Mary Shelley?s Anglo-Italian Visioning; Renée Jeanne Schlueter -- Chapter 9: "I will write plain words to England": Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s Aurora Leigh; Lisa Angelella -- Chapter 10: Timebound and Timeless in Italy: Why Eliot Chose Florence for Romola; Marilyn D. Button -- Part IV. Inspired Social Activists -- Chapter 11: By Art and Spirit: Florence Nightingale?s Transformation in Rome; Lauren M. Riepl and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Chapter 12: "Victory is not won simply by assertion of principles alone": Josephine Butler?s Crusade in Italy; Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Chapter 13: Exploring the ?Wild Zone?: Amelia B. Edwards Travels the Italian Dolomites; Dona M. Cady -- Chapter 14: Conclusion; Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen. 330 $aDuring the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a feminist travel gaze, intentionally or unintentionally, that differed from that of male peers. Unlike their brothers, who went for personal edification, women with means left their English homes for the great Italian cities of Florence, Naples, and Rome to escape personal disappointments and the social limitations imposed by parents, spouses, and society. The anonymity of travel to a distant land and new freedoms fostered political and creative achievements, including entrepreneurial journalism, literary masterpieces, and social advocacy for their gender, which redefined the contours of the Anglo-Italian cultural landscape. The historical evidence presented here testifies to the life-changing capacity of travel and firmly demonstrates how British women?s history and literature enriches and broadens narratives about Britain and the World. Marilyn D. Button is a Professor of English at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania in the USA. She is co-editor of two books: The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (1999) and The Victorian Case for Charity: Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati (2013). Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen is an Emerita Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma and an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Maryland Global Campus in the USA. 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