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Author:

Cove, Patricia, author.

Title:

Italian politics and nineteenth-century British literature and culture / Patricia Cove.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

x, 190 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1800-1899
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Politics and literature--Italy--History--19th century.
English literature.
Politics and government.
Politics and literature.
Italy--Politics and government--19th century.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

ISBN:

1474447244
9781474447249

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1057781416

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)