Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy:
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Beteilige Person: Luzzi, Joseph (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press ©2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index
Italy's ambivalent modernity -- Genus italicum -- Did Italian romanticism exist? -- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart
This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination
Umfang:x, 294 pages
ISBN:9780300151787
0300151780
0300123558
9780300123555
1282352407
9781282352407