British Writers and the Experience of Italy (1800–1940)
Peter Vassallo
The essays offered in this book explore some of the significant Romantic and post-Romantic constructions of Italy, its culture and history, beginning with Madame de Staël’s seminal Corinne, ou l’Italie (1807), which would prove influential in the aesthetic imaginary shaping and surrounding subsequent literary works about Italy. The Italian landscape and cultural scene invited both description and re-inscription by some of the prominent British writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who were responding to the fascination exerted upon them by Italian culture generally.
The chapters in this book consider the rich texture of this scene of literary and cultural influence, focusing on the perception, representation and appropriation of Italy by some major British writers of the period indicated, among them Lord Byron, Lady Morgan, Percy Shelley, John Keats, George Eliot, John Ruskin, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats.
Publication: 6 November 2012
Size: 216 x 155 mm
Hard bound: EUR 21.00
Soft bound: EUR 14.70
172 pages
Bibliography of Anglo-Italian Comparative Literary Criticism 1800-1990
The Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies has also published the Bibliography of Anglo-Italian Comparative Literary Criticism 1800-1990 compiled by Alfonso Sammut and edited by Peter Vassallo and Franco Lanza with a Foreword by John Woodhouse.
This is a unique and comprehensive bibliography which comprises criticism relating to the Italian literary influence on British Literature and Culture from 1800-1990. Containing over 4,000 entries, it is indispensable for scholars and research students.
Paperback: EUR 25.50, US$25.50 or £Stg15.50 +p&p
