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Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844?61)
 
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ISBN13:9780367459666
ISBN10:0367459663
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:294 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:680 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white
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Revisiting Italy

British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844?61)
 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
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Short description:

Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity, and literary authority in women?s travel writing.

Long description:

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815?61). Revisiting Italy brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign.



Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.



Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women?s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.

Table of Contents:

Introduction




Part I. Rebirthing Italia: Maternal Nationalisms (1844?46)


Chapter 1. Rebirthing Romantic Italy ? Mary Shelley?s Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1940, 1942, and 1843 (1844)


Chapter 2. ?T[aking] England with Her Wherever She Went?: Maternal Meridionism in Clotilda Stisted?s Letters from the Bye-Ways of Italy (1845)





Part II. Resurrecting the Nation: Pi[o]us Pilgrimages (1847?48)


Chapter 3. ?[S]o From This Fate Shall Grow | The Palm Branch?: Paternal Redemption in Fanny Kemble?s A Year of Consolation (1847)





Chapter 4. Of Martyrdom or Militancy? Florence Nightingale?s Letters from Rome (1847?48)






Part III. From Resurgence to Insurgence: Identities in Conflict (1849?57)


Chapter 5. ?Guardian[s] of [...] Tranquillity?: The Conservative Turn in Women?s Travel Writing on Italy (1849?52)






Chapter 6. ?[T]he Foreground Is Changed?: Florentia, the New Monthly Magazine (1853?57) and the Politics of Celebrity





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