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Titolo: | Roman holidays [[electronic resource] ] : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy / / edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person |
Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/003 |
810.9003 | |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - Italian influences |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism | |
American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Americans - Italy - History - 19th century | |
Authors, American - 19th century | |
Artists - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | Italy Description and travel |
Rome (Italy) In literature | |
Rome (Italy) In art | |
Italy In literature | |
Italy In art | |
Altri autori: | MartinRobert K. <1941-> PersonLeland S |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: RICHARD H. MILLINGTON 9 -- Where Is Hawthorne's Rome? -- The Marble Faun and the Cultural Space of Middle-Class Leisure -- ROBERT K. MARTIN 28 -- "An Awful Freedom": -- Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival -- KRISTIE HAMILTON 41 -- Fauns and Mohicans: -- Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity -- NANCY PROCTOR 60 -- The Purloined Studio: -- The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun -- JOHN CARLOS ROWE 73 -- Hawthorne's Ghost in James's Italy: -- Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function of Sexuality -- in The Marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and His Friends -- LELAND S. PERSON 107 -- Falling into Heterosexuality: -- Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson -- PRISCILLA L. WALTON 140 -- Roman Springs and Roman Fevers: -- James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease -- ADAM PARKES 159 -- Henry James's Italian Hours and the "Ruskinian Contagion" -- BRIGITTE BAILEY I75 -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome -- SUSAN M. GRIFFIN 191 -- The Black Robe of Romance: -- Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest -- ROBERT MILDER 206 -- "The Connecting Link of Centuries": -- Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1 8S , 6 8S 7 -- ROBERT S. LEVINE 226 -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Roman holidays |
ISBN: | 1-58729-404-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777442703321 |
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