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Author Luzzi, Joseph

Title Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy / Joseph Luzzi
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
Contents Italy's ambivalent modernity -- Genus italicum -- Did Italian romanticism exist? -- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart
Summary This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index
Notes English
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Subject Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- Italian and European
Comparative literature -- European and Italian
European literature -- 18th century -- Italian influences
European literature -- 19th century -- Italian influences
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Civilization
Italian literature
Italian literature -- Literature. -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Italy -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068886
Subject Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008016715
ISBN 9780300151787
0300151780
9786612352409
661235240X