American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy /

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"Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berthold, Dennis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891
Melville, Herman.
1815-1870
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Civilization > Italian influences
Risorgimento
Rezeption
Kulturelle Entwicklung
Nationale Einheit
Italy > History > 1815-1870.
United States > Civilization > Italian influences.
Italie > Histoire > 1815-1870.
Italy
United States
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision
  • Mardi's Dantean intertext
  • Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic
  • Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man
  • The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces
  • "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.

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