Roman Holidays : American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy

by Martin, Robert K.; Person, Leland S.

• ISBN13: 9780877457824
• ISBN10: 0877457824
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Robert K. Martin
Leland S. Person
Where Is Hawthorne's Rome? The Marble Faun and the Cultural Space of Middle-Class Leisure	9	(19)
Richard H. Millington
``An Awful Freedom'': Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival	28	(13)
Robert K. Martin
Fauns and Mohicans: Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity	41	(19)
Kristie Hamilton
The Purloined Studio: The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun	60	(13)
Nancy Proctor
Hawthorne's Ghost in James's Italy: Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function of Sexuality in The Marble Faun, ``Adina,'' and William Wetmore Story and His Friends	73	(34)
John Carlos Rowe
Falling into Heterosexuality: Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson	107	(33)
Leland S. Person
Roman Springs and Roman Fevers: James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease	140	(19)
Priscilla L. Walton
Henry James's Italian Hours and the ``Ruskinian Contagion''	159	(16)
Adam Parkes
Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome	175	(16)
Brigitte Bailey
The Black Robe of Romance: Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest	191	(15)
Susan M. Griffin
``The Connecting Link of Centuries'': Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856--1857	206	(20)
Robert Milder
Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome	226	(21)
Robert S. Levine
Contributors	247	(4)
Index	251