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

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. Contents Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Italian Unity and International Alliances -- Chapter 1 Romantic Italy and Restoration Politics: Romantic Poetry, Lady Morgan's Italy and Mary Shelley's Valperga -- Chapter 2 Italian Exiles from Young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento Refugees in Giovanni Ruffini's Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor Antonio -- Chapter 3 Spying in the British Post Office: Letter-Opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White Chapter 4 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and index Subject 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 SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007834 Subject Great Britain Italy Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474447263 1474447260 1474447244 9781474447249 9781474464970 1474464971 9781474447270 1474447279

Other Titles Italian politics and 19th-century British literature and culture

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