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Title:
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ROMAN HOLIDAYS
AMERICAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY |
By: |
Robert K. Martin (Editor), Leland S. Person (Editor) |
Format: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
14 photographs, index |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press |
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