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1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Where is Hawthorne's Rome? The marble faun and the cultural space of middle-class leisure / Richard H. Millington -- "An awful freedom": Hawthorne and the anxieties of the carnival / Robert K. Martin -- Fauns and Mohicans: narratives of extinction and Hawthorne's aesthetic of modernity / Kristie Hamilton -- The purloined studio: [the] woman sculptor as phallic ghost in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Nancy Proctor -- 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 / John Carlos Rowe -- Falling into heterosexuality: sculpting male bodies in The marble faun and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- Roman springs and Roman fevers: James, gender, and transnational dis-ease / Priscilla L. Walton -- Henry James's Italian hours and the "Ruskinian contagion" / Adam Parkes -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and imagining urban spaces in Rome / Brigitte Bailey -- The black robe of romance: Hawthorne's shadow and Howells's Italian priest / Susan M. Griffin -- "The connecting link of centuries": Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 / Robert Milder -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome / Robert S. Levine. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Italian influences.
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American literature -- Italian influences. |
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Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings, American. |
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American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature. |
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19th century |
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Americans -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
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Americans. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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Biographies.
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Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
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Travel writing. |
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Artists -- United States -- Biography.
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Artists. |
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United States. |
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Italy -- Description and travel.
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Rome (Italy) -- In literature.
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Rome (Italy) -- In art.
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Italy -- In literature.
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Italy -- In art.
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Geschichte 1800-1900 |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Art.
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Martin, Robert K., 1941-
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Person, Leland S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roman holidays. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002 0877457824 (DLC) 2001035863 (OCoLC)47018513 |
| ISBN |
1587294044 (electronic book) |
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9781587294044 (electronic book) |
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9780877457824 |
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0877457824 (acid-free paper) |
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