Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29593-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burwick, F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Wordsworth in Italy; M.Gaull Sitting in Dante's Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism; B.Graver Byron between Ariosto and Tasso; N.Halmi Byron and Alfieri; P.Cochran "More than Half Erased": Shelley, Dante, and Realms Without a Name; M.O'Neill Epipsychidion and the Renewable Life; S.Curran Mary Shelley's Valperga: Romance, Philology and Historiography; T.Rajan Appropriating Dante in Felicia Hemans's 'The Maremma': Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture; D.Saglia De Staël's Corinne and the Performance of Romanticism; D.Hoeveler Importing Improvvisatori: The Culture of Poetic Improvisation in 1820s England; A.Esterhammer Masaniello on the London Stage; F.Burwick Revisioning Rimini: Reading Dante in the Cockney School; J.N.Cox Syllables of the Sweet South: Figuring the Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period; T.Webb

Über Autor(innen)

FREDERICK BURWICK is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
 
PAUL DOUGLASS is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University, California, USA.