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Angela Esterhammer, Angela Est ...
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"During the Romantic era, especially in Italy, performers known as improvvisatori and improvvisatrici extemporised poetry in public in response to subjects requested by their audiences. This type of performance fascinated grand tourists from northern Europe, who reported on poetic improvisers in hundreds of travel accounts, journals, letters, and periodical articles. By uncovering historical data and interpreting literary texts, Professor Esterhammer identifies patterns in the responses of English, German, French, and Russian writers to the experience of improvisation. She explores how improvisation interacts with Romantic ideas about genius, spontaneity, orality, and emotional expressiveness, and relates to evolving concepts of gender and nation."--Jacket.

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Cambridge University Press
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English
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269

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English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, English poetry, history and criticism, 18th century, Italian poetry, history and criticism, Comparative literature, english and italian, Romanticism, English fiction, History and criticism, European fiction

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Table of Contents

"This lightning of the mind": improvisation and performance in the Romantic era
Defining improvisation and improvising national identity: from grand tourists to Della Cruscans
Importing improvisation: oral performance and print culture in the age of Goethe
Was Homer an improvvisatore?: histories of improvisation in antiquarian scholarship and popular culture
The spectacle of the Romantic improviser: Corilla, Corinne, and the British women poets of the 1820s
Stars of the post-Napoleonic stage: Rosa Taddei, Tommaso Sgricci, and their audiences
Byron, Hoffman, and the improvisational worlds of Carnival and commedia
Sociability, social practice, and the Bildungsroman of the 1830s
The improviser's disorder: adventurers and misfits in nineteenth-century fiction
Virtuosi, vaudevillians, mystics, madmen, and rhetoricians: improvisational contexts of the nineteenth century
Afterword: writing the improviser.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-262) and index.

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Cambridge, New York
Series
Cambridge studies in Romanticism -- 77

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.709
Library of Congress
PR778.R65 E78 2008

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xiii, 269 p. :
Number of pages
269

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OL23678795M
ISBN 10
0521897092
ISBN 13
9780521897099
LCCN
2009291403
OCLC/WorldCat
212858847
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4337361

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