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ROMAN HOLIDAYS
AMERICAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY |
| By: |
Robert K. Martin (Editor), Leland S. Person (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£42.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0877457824 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780877457824 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2002 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Featuring essays by 12 prominent American literature scholars, this text explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of 19th-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome. |
| Synopsis: |
Featuring essays by 12 prominent American literature scholars, this text explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of 19th-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome. The increase in American travel to Italy during the 19th century was partly a product of improved conditions of travel. As suggested in the title, Italy served 19th-century writers and artists as a kind of laboratory site for encountering Others and "other" kinds of experience. No doubt Italy offered a place of holiday - a momentary escape from the familiar - but the journey to Rome, a place urging upon the visitor a new and more complex sense of history, also forced a re-examination of oneself and one's identity. Writers and artists found their religious, political and sexual assumptions challenged. |
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14 photographs, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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