| Description |
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index. |
| Contents |
Italy's ambivalent modernity -- Genus italicum -- Did Italian romanticism exist? -- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart. |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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Italian literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Italian and European.
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Comparative literature. |
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Comparative literature -- European and Italian.
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European literature -- 18th century -- Italian influences.
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European literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
European literature -- 19th century -- Italian influences.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Italy -- Civilization.
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Italy. |
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luzzi, Joseph. Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 9780300123555 (DLC) 2008016715 (OCoLC)225875834 |
| ISBN |
9780300151787 (electronic book) |
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0300151780 (electronic book) |
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0300123558 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780300123555 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1282352407 |
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9781282352407 |
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