Italy And The English Romantics

Author : C. P Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521247290

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Italy and the English Romantics by C. P Brand Pdf

A fashionable and well-informed interest in Italy was a feature of English intellectual life in the first half of the 19th century. Most cultured people could read Italian and knew something of Italian literature. Young ladies learned to sing in Italian, whilst young gentlemen completed their education with a tour in Italy. Painters went there to make copies from Raphael; architects to sketch the Graeco-Roman ruins. Men of letters in particular found themselves drawn to Italy and much Romantic literature reflects this interest; many works owe their origin to Italian literature. In this book, which was originally published in 1957, Dr Brand traces the growth and decline of the social fashion which made Italy the goal of so many cultured Englishmen. He examines in particular the extent and significance of Italy's fascination for the English romantic writers, and traces the effects of the fashion in music, painting, architecture and political affairs.

Author : F. Burwick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119970

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Dante and Italy in British Romanticism by F. Burwick Pdf

From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism.

Author : Leigh Hunt
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Italy and the English Romantics by Leigh Hunt Pdf

Author : Roderick Cavaliero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857713896

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Italia Romantica by Roderick Cavaliero Pdf

Italia Romantica is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy and of the changing attitudes in pre-unification Italy. In the eyes of the English Romantics, Italy was not a nation but Italia, a place inhabited by the ancients. Theirs was a view shaped by the eighteenth century, the age of the Grand Tour, when no future nobleman's education was complete without a visit to Venice's carnival, the majestic ruins of the Forum in Rome, or the legendary Mount Vesuvius. The people of Italy, divided by language, region, and culture, did not share these artistic and historical ideals of Italia. After the Napoleonic wars all this was to change: Napoleon's march across Europe altered the map of Italy and brought an end to the Grand Tour in its previous form. Nationalism began to replace local loyalties and the land 'where the lemon trees blow' now attracted tourists. Through the eyes of Romantic travellers and poets such as Byron, Keats and Shelley, we see a fascinating picture of pre-unification Italy, struggling to recover after Napoleon and edging towards the Risorgimento. Here is the Italy of idealised antiquity, magnificent but crumbling, somewhat like a gigantic and rather run-down living museum. Roderick Cavaliero's compelling story is full of bandits, unreformed Catholicism, poets and improvisatory, shot through with vignettes of timeless urban and pastoral life, remarkable characters and anecdote, in this readable and strongly-etched cultural history.

Author : Maria Schoina
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754662926

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Romantic 'Anglo-Italians' by Maria Schoina Pdf

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning, by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of social and political reform.Schoina's emphasis on the political implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to uncover their complex ideological underpinnings.

Author : C P (Charles Peter) Brand
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013665023

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Italy and the English Romantics, the Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth-century England by C P (Charles Peter) Brand Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300151787

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy by Joseph Luzzi Pdf

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.

Author : Roderick Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:222918163

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Italy in English Literature, 1755-1815 by Roderick Marshall Pdf

Author : Maria Schoina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902533

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Romantic 'Anglo-Italians' by Maria Schoina Pdf

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning, by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of social and political reform. Schoina's emphasis on the political implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to uncover their complex ideological underpinnings. Recognizing that Mary Shelley was instrumental in conceptualizing the Romantics' discourse of acculturation expands our understanding of this phenomenon, as does Schoina's convincing case for the importance of gender as a major determinant of Mary Shelley's construction of Anglo-Italianness.

Author : Maureen McCue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317171492

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British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840 by Maureen McCue Pdf

As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry, plays, novels, travel writing, exhibition catalogues, early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors, including Felicia Hemans, William Buchanan, Henry Sass, Pierce Egan, William Hazlitt, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Anna Jameson, Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats, while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.

Author : Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029943912

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Imagining Italy, literary itineraries in British Romanticism by Lilla Maria Crisafulli Pdf

Author : Roderick Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0883054310

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Italy in English Literature, 1755-1815 by Roderick Marshall Pdf

Author : Caroline Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136245510

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The Female Romantics by Caroline Franklin Pdf

Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘feminism’ and late Romanticism. This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Lord Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, challenging previous critics’ segregation of the male Romantic writers from their female peers. The Romantic movement in general unleashed the creative ambitions of nineteenth-century female novelists, and the public voice of Byron in particular engaged them in transnational issues of political, national and sexual freedom. Byronism had itself been shaped by the poet’s incursion onto a literary scene where women readers were dominant and formidable intellectuals such as Madame de Staël were lionized. Byron engaged in rivalrous dialogue with the novels of his female friends and contemporaries, such as Caroline Lamb, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, whose critiques of Romantic egotism helped prompt his own self-parody in Don Juan. Later Victorian novelists, such as George Sand, the Brontë sisters and Harriet Beecher Stowe, wove their rejection of their childhood attraction to Byronism, and their dawning awareness of the significance for women of Lady Byron’s actions, into the feminist fabric of their art.

Author : Maura O'Connor
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : British
ISBN : 033374926X

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The Romance of Italy and the English Imagination by Maura O'Connor Pdf

The author of this work aims to show the extent to which imagination, pleasure and politics were interwoven in her story of the English middle class fascination with the Italian peninsula from the early 1800s through to the 1860s. She uses a variety of sources, ranging from travel writings and the popular press to diplomatic dispatches and official correspondence, to illustrate how influential the romance of Italy was to the bourgeois, liberal, and above all English social order during a time when class society was undergoing reconfiguration. Her use of the collective imagination as a crucial historical tool, and her emphasis on narrative as a means not only to read texts but also to understand political sources such as diplomatic documents as reflections of culture, ensures that this book breaks new ground and defies conventional categorization. Also included are the unique assertions that the concepts of Englishness and 'England' were conceived in anything but isolation, and that neither high politics nor foreign policy may be viewed as domains separate from the forces of cultural imagination and production.

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199660896

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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.