Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

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In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi 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.

The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the "world's university" (Goethe) and "mother of arts" (Byron), the influence of Dante's Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters - Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni - profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780300151787
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Italian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Italy’s Ambivalent Modernity
  4. Part I: Genus Italicum
  5. 1. Did Italian Romanticism Exist?
  6. 2. Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo
  7. 3. The Death of Italy and Birth of European Romanticism
  8. Part II: Heirs of a Dark Wood
  9. Prologue
  10. 4. Dante and Autobiography in the Age of Voltaire
  11. 5. Alfieri’s Prince, Dante, and the Romantic Self
  12. 6. Wordsworth, Dante, and British Romantic Identity
  13. Part III: Corpus Italicum
  14. 7. Italy as Woman and Wound, Dante to Leopardi
  15. 8. The Body of Parini
  16. Epilogue: Italy’s Broken Heart
  17. Notes
  18. Index