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Italian politics and nineteenth-century British literature and culture

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This text examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.

Title Italian politics and nineteenth-century British literature and culture / Patricia Cove.
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Creation Date [2019]
Notes Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Italian Unity and International Alliances -- 1 Romantic Italy and Restoration Politics: Romantic Poetry, Lady Morgan’s Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga -- 2 Italian Exiles from Young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento Refugees in Giovanni Ruffini’s Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor Antonio -- 3 Spying in the British Post Office: Letter-Opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White -- 4 Wounded Utterance: Trauma and Italy’s Second War of Independence in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems Before Congress and Last Poems -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Extent 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Language English
Copyright Date ©2019
National Library system number 997012132349805171
MARC RECORDS
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