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...
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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. Participating in the current trend to move beyond national boundaries, these essays examine the influences of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Alfieri, and other major Italian writers on British writers who spent time in Italy: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Felicia Hemans. Providing insight on topics from the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, this volume breaks new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture
Cover; Series Title; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Wordsworth's Italian Encounters; Two: Sitting in Dante's Throne: Wordsworth andItalian Nationalism; Three: Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso; Four: Byron and Alfieri; Five: Picturing Byron's Italy and Italians: Finden's Illustrations to Byron's Life and Works; Six: Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy's Intenser Day; Seven: Epipsychidion, Dante, and the Renewable Life; Eight: The Poetry of Philology: Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Mary Shelley's Valperga
Nine: Hemans's Record of Dante: "The Maremma" and the Intertextual Poetics of PlenitudeTen: Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy (1807) and the Performance of Romanticism(s); Eleven: Coleridge, Sgricci, and the Shows of London: Improvising in Print and Performance; Twelve: Masaniello on the London Stage; Thirteen: Re-Visioning Rimini: Dante in the Cockney School; Fourteen: "Syllables of the Sweet South": The Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period; Works Cited; Contributor; Index;
