Romantic 'Anglo-Italians': Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle

ISBN-13: 9780367887995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 202 str.

Maria Schoina

Opis

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. British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are inextricably linked to the period's social and political contexts, a recogni

Recenzje

'In her innovative and energizing study, Maria Schoina offers a compelling account of Romantic identity in relation to "Anglo-Italians" such as Hunt, Byron, and the Shelleys. Combining a "cultural-geographical approach" with literary insights, this book represents interdisciplinary work of a very high order.' Michael O'Neill, Durham University, UK 'Romantic 'Anglo-Italians' commendably tries fresh ways to tell a well-known tale... a provocative contribution to the study of Romantic transnational and cultural networks.' Sharp News 'Maria Schoina's Romantic 'Anglo-Italians' [...] offers a timely and subtly argued consideration of the later Romantic poets' engagement with questions of place and identity.' Year's Work in English Studies 'In this penetrating study of configurations of identity of some of the important British expatriates in post Napoleonic Italy, Dr Schoina ably demonstrates how the concept of the Anglo-Italian, as Mary Shelley defined it, was linked to the social economic and cultural conditions of the age.' Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 'It is thanks to its undeterred attention to the many expressions of this process of semantic revision that this study offers some essential lessons about early nineteenth-century constructions and figurations of Italy. At the same time, it invites us to reflect on the impossibility of laying to rest a subject that continues to provide some of the most stimulating and innovative research in Romantic-period studies.' Byron Journal '[A] very engaging study...' BARS Bulletin

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Roots, routes and hyphens: reconsidering romantic identity; Anglo-Italian spaces and metaphors in the cultural discourse of the late 18th and early 19th century; Mary Shelly, Anglo-Italicus; 'My heart is all meridian': Byron's poetics of acculturation; Rooting the Anglo-Italian: place and identity in the Pisan circle; Epilogue: (post)romantic reflections on acculturation; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Maria Schoina is Lecturer in the School of English Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has published articles on Byron, the Shelleys, Leigh Hunt and on Romantic Philhellenism