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Title:

Roman holidays : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy / edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

vi, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Italian influences.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Americans--Italy--History--19th century.
Authors, American--19th century.--Biography.
Americans--Italy--History--19th century.
Artists--United States--Biography.
Italy--Description and travel.
Rome (Italy)--In literature.
Rome (Italy)--In art.
Italy--In literature.
Italy--In art.

Other Authors:

Martin, Robert K., 1941-
Person, Leland S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Where is Hawthorne's Rome? The marble faun and the cultural space of middle-class leisure / Richard H. Millington -- "An awful freedom": Hawthorne and the anxieties of the carnival / Robert K. Martin -- Fauns and Mohicans: narratives of extinction and Hawthorne's aesthetic of modernity / Kristie Hamilton -- The purloined studio: [the] woman sculptor as phallic ghost in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Nancy Proctor -- Hawthorne's ghost in James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in The marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and his friends / John Carlos Rowe -- Falling into heterosexuality: sculpting male bodies in The marble faun and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- Roman springs and Roman fevers: James, gender, and transnational dis-ease / Priscilla L. Walton -- Henry James's Italian hours and the "Ruskinian contagion" / Adam Parkes -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and imagining urban spaces in Rome / Brigitte Bailey -- The black robe of romance: Hawthorne's shadow and Howells's Italian priest / Susan M. Griffin -- "The connecting link of centuries": Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 / Robert Milder -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome / Robert S. Levine.

ISBN:

9780877457824 (acid-free paper)
0877457824 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47018513

LCCN:

2001035863

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)