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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474447252

ISBN-139781474447256

eBay Product ID (ePID)18050404541

Product Key Features

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameItalian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

SubjectWorld / European, Modern / 19th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science

AuthorPatricia Cove

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsRanging from the 1815 Congress of Vienna to the 1861 creation of the Kingdom of Italy, Patricia Cove's richly detailed "case studies" of historical novels, sensation fiction, poems, and travelogues illumine the diversity of British, Anglo-Italian, and Anglo-Irish literary engagements with the fraught politics and intergenerational dynamics of the Risorgimento.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9/358281

Table Of ContentAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Italian Unity and International AlliancesChapter 1. Romantic Italy and Restoration Politics: Romantic Poetry, Lady Morgan's Italy and Mary Shelley's ValpergaChapter 2. Italian Exiles from Young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento Refugees in Giovanni Ruffini's Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor AntonioChapter 3. Spying in the British Post Office: Letter-Opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in WhiteChapter 4. Wounded Utterance: Trauma and Italy's Second War of Independence in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems Before Congress and Last PoemsConclusionBibliography

SynopsisA transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterprise Key Features Re-imagines the parameters and duration of the relationship between the Risorgimento and British culture to revitalise critical engagement with the political dimension of nineteenth-century Anglo-Italian studiesMaps the emergence and evolution of major nineteenth-century forms and genres according to the reverberations of Italian politics that shaped the literary landscapeCovers a wide range of diverse sources, including fiction, poetry and polemical and journalistic non-fiction prose, adding to an existing critical debate focused on poetryRethinks nineteenth-century British political debates surrounding liberalism, the nation and the rights of citizens and refugees in light of the seismic geopolitical shift of Italian unificationCrossing borders, political divides and genres, this book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification. Revitalising critical narratives surrounding the mutually constitutive Anglo-Italian relationship, Cove argues that forging a new state demands both making and unmaking; as the Risorgimento re-mapped Europe's geopolitical reality, it also reframed how the British saw themselves, their politics and their place within Europe., This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.

LC Classification NumberPR478.P64