Unfolding the South Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy

by Chapman, Alison; Stabler, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780719061295
• ISBN10: 0719061296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-28
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Unfolding the Southpresents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. Responding to recent developments in the fields of literary criticism and art history, the book covers a stimulating range of canonical and non-canonical writers and artists. Eleven essays offer new perspectives on well-known figures such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mary Shelley, together with discussions of writers and artists of newly-emerging importance.

Author Biography

Alison Chapman is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow.

Jane Stabler is Lecturer in English, University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vi
Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Alison Chapman
Jane Stabler
Devotion and diversion: early nineteenth-century British women travellers in Italy and the Catholic Church	15	(20)
Jane Stabler
Casa Guidi Windows: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the poetry of citizenship	35	(16)
Richard Cronin
Casa Guidi Windows: spectacle and politics in 1851	51	(19)
Isobel Armstrong
Risorgimenti: spiritualism, politics and Elizabeth Barrett Browning	70	(20)
Alison Chapman
Acts of union: Theodosia Garrow Trollope and Frances Power Cobbe on the Kingdom of Italy	90	(20)
Esther Schor
Liberty, equality and sorority: women's representations of the Unification of Italy	110	(27)
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
The difficulty of Italy: translation and transmission in George Eliot's Romola	137	(22)
Nicola Trott
`The old Tuscan rapture': the response to Italy and its art in the work of Marie Spartali Stillman	159	(24)
Jan Marsh
`Amiable but determined autocracy': Margaret Oliphant, Venice, and the inheritance of Ruskin	183	(18)
Francis O'Gorman
Vernon Lee and the ghosts of Italy	201	(21)
Catherine Maxwell
Resurrections of the body: women writers and the idea of the Renaissance	222	(17)
Angela Leighton
Index	239