Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and index.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Italian unity and international alliances -- Romantic Italy and restoration politics: romantic poetry, Lady Morgan's "Italy" and Mary Shelley's "Valperga" -- Italian exiles from young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento refugees in Giovanni Ruffini's "Lorenzo Benoni " and "Doctor Antonio" -- Spying in the British Post Office: letter-opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" -- Wounded utterance: trauma and Italy's Second War of Independence in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Poems before Congress" and "Last Poems" -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
Crossing 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.
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