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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II