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Title British romanticism and Italian literature : translating, reviewing, rewriting / edited by Laura Bandiera and Diego Saglia.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 92
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 92. 0929-6999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: 'Home of the Arts! Land of the Lyre!': Scholarly Approaches and Fictional Myths of Italian Culture in British Romanticism; SETTING THE SCENE: LITERARY AND CULTURAL INTERSECTIONS; BUILDING THE PAST: RE-APPROACHING THE ITALIAN LITERARY HERITAGE; LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY ITALY: MAPPING THE PRESENT; Index.
Summary Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This v.
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Subject Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- Italian influences.
English literature -- Italian influences.
Italian literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
Italian literature -- Appreciation.
Italian literature -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Italian literature -- Study and teaching.
Italian literature.
Italian literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
Italian literature -- Translations into English.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Bandiera, Laura.
Saglia, Diego.
Other Form: Print version: British romanticism and Italian literature. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042018577 (OCoLC)61766617
ISBN 1423791215 (electronic book)
9781423791218 (electronic book)
9042018577 (paperback)
9789042018570