Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.
Contents
A tale of import so divine : new women in the Old World -- I forgot myself : nation and identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's travel writing -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic -- Domesticity and nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento -- How can I write down the flowers? : representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.