Roman Holidays : American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy.
Title:
Roman Holidays : American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy.
Author:
Martin, Robert K.
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9781587294044
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1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents:
Inroduction by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person -- Where Is Hawthorne's Rome? By Richard H. Millington -- ''An Awful Freedom'': Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival by Robert K. Martin 28 -- Fauns and Mohicans: Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity by Kristie Hamilton -- The Purloined Studio: The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun by 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 by John Carlos Rowe -- Falling into Heterosexuality: Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson by Leland S. Person -- Roman Springs and Roman Fevers: James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease by Priscilla L. Walton -- Henry James's Italian Hours and the ''Ruskinian Contagion'' by Adam Parkes -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome by Brigitte Bailey -- The Black Robe of Romance: Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest by Susan M. Griffin -- ''The Connecting Link of Centuries'': Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 by Robert Milder -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome by Robert S. Levine -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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