Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany -- 2 Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window -- 3 Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion -- 4 The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence -- 5 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing -- 6 The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti -- Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary
In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu
