Rebecca Butler

Revisiting Italy

British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844-61)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Travel Writing
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780367459666
• ISBN-10: 0367459663
• Artikelnr.: 61832460

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Butler is a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, where she is a member of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies and the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. She has published articles on nineteenth-century guidebooks, travel print culture and touristic developments. This is her first monograph.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Coda

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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

Coda