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9780300123555

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300123555

  • ISBN10:

    0300123558

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2008-11-18
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the "world's university" (Goethe) and "mother of arts" (Byron), the influence of Dante'sCommediaon Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic lettersUgo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoniprofoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.

Author Biography

Joseph Luzzi is assistant professor of Italian and director of the Italian Studies program, Bard College. His articles have appeared in Comparative Literature, Dante Studies, Italica, Modern Language Notes, Modern Language Quarterly, and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. He lives in Tivoli, NY.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Italy's Ambivalent Modernityp. 1
Genus Italicum
Did Italian Romanticism Exist?p. 25
Italy without Italians: Goethe, Stael, and Foscolop. 53
The Death of Italy and Birth of European Romanticismp. 77
Heirs of a Dark Wood: Prologuep. 97
Dante and Autobiography in the Age of Voltairep. 104
Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the Romantic Selfp. 124
Wordsworth, Dante, and British Romantic Identityp. 141
Corpus Italicum
Italy as Woman and Wound, Dante to Leopardip. 163
The Body of Parinip. 195
Epilogue: Italy's Broken Heartp. 213
Notesp. 221
Indexp. 285
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