MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008055040
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005 20090102174157.0
008 090102s2009 vtu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPR457$b.S38 2009
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100 1 $aSchoina, Maria.
245 10 $aRomantic 'Anglo-Italians' :$bconfigurations of identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle /$cby Maria Schoina.
260 $aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Pub. Company,$c2009.
263 $a0906
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aThe nineteenth century series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: roots, routes and hyphens: reconsidering romantic identity. "A well-informed, clever, and active race" -- Culture, place, identity, politics -- Italy and the British romantics -- Anglo-Italian spaces and metaphors in the cultural discourse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century -- A tale of two countries - Cities of the mind: Venice and London in late eighteenth-century Capriccio paintings -- Melancholy feelings expressed "with Italian imagination" in Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy -- Mary Shelley, Anglo-Italicus -- Between Italy and England -- Female self-assertion and the politics of distinction in the reviews and in rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 -- "My heart is all meridian": Byron's poetics of acculturation -- "To see men and things as they are": the quest for authenticity in post-Napoleonic travel writing -- Byron's negotiating identities in Childe Harold's pilgrimage -- "To the po. June 2nd 1819", Beppo and in the prophecy of Dante -- Rooting the Anglo-Italian: place and identity in the Pisan Circle -- The cultural geography of the Pisan Circle: a revisionist reading -- Percy Shelley's "elective affinities": the Pisan poems and the review of Sgricci's improvisation -- The Anglo-Italian liberal: Leigh Hunt's Letters from abroad -- Epilogue: (post)romantic reflections on acculturation.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBritish$zItaly$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAcculturation$zItaly$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aItaly$xIntellectual life$y1789-1900.
650 0 $aAcculturation in literature.
650 0 $aItaly$xIn literature.