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 ofthe reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism. FREDERICK BURWICK is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. . PAUL DOUGLASS is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University, California, USA. INDICE: Wordsworth in Italy; 'M.Gaull - 'Sitting in Dante's Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism; 'B.Graver - 'Byron between Ariosto and Tasso; 'N.Halmi - 'Byron and Alfieri; 'P.Cochran - ''More than Half Erased': Shelley, Dante, and Realms Without a Name; 'M.O'Neill - Epipsychidion 'and the RenewableLife; 'S.Curran - 'Mary Shelley's Valperga: Romance, Philology and Historiography; 'T.Rajan - 'Appropriating Dante in Felicia Hemans's 'The Maremma': Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture; 'D.Saglia - 'De Staël's Corinne and the Performance of Romanticism; 'D.Hoeveler - 'Importing Improvvisatori: The Culture of Poetic Improvisation in 1820s England;' A.Esterhammer' - Masaniello on the London Stage; 'F.Burwick' - Revisioning Rimini: Reading Dante in the Cockney School; 'J.N.Cox - 'Syllables of the Sweet South: Figuring the Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period; 'T.Webb'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11448-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés