British romanticism and Italian literature : translating, reviewing, rewriting /
Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
92. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This v. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (281 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1423791215 9781423791218 |
ISSN: | 0929-6999 ; |