Byron and Italy.
How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Tables of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Byron in Italy: a chronology; 1816; 1817; 1818; 1819; 1820; 1821; 1822; 1823; Introduction: 'Un paese tutto poetico'
- Byron in Italy, Italy in Byron; Notes; 1 The literature of Italy in Byron's poems of 1817-20; Notes; 2 Byron's ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians; Byron's poetics of domestication; Ethnographic investigations: fact versus fiction; 'Love in full life and length', or when the 'real' overwhelms the 'ideal'; Notes.
- 3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron's Scottish identity in ItalyNotes; 4 The garden of the world: Byron and the geography of Italy; Geography as mindscape; Italy: a 'graced' ruin; Expanded by the 'genius of the spot'; Notes; 5 'Something I have seen or think it possible to see': Byron and Italian art in Ravenna; Acknowledgements; Notes; 6 'Something sensible to grasp at': Byron and Italian Catholicism; Notes; 7 The politics of the unities: tragedy and the Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni; Acknowledgement; Notes; 8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement; Notes.
- 9 This 'still exhaustless mine': de Staël, Goethe and Byron's Roman lyricismNotes; 10 Playing with history: Byron's Italian dramas; Notes; 11 'Where shall I turn me?': Italy and irony in Beppo and Don Juan; Textual turns: the tre corone of Italian literature; Serventismo and the performative turn; 'An Italian Carnival'; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.