Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61)

Author:   Rebecca Butler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   282
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
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Author:   Rebecca Butler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780367459666


ISBN 10:   0367459663
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Part I. Rebirthing Italia: Maternal Nationalisms (1844–46) Chapter 1. Rebirthing Romantic Italy – Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1940, 1942, and 1843 (1844) Chapter 2. ‘T[aking] England with Her Wherever She Went’: Maternal Meridionism in Clotilda Stisted’s Letters from the Bye-Ways of Italy (1845) Part II. Resurrecting the Nation: Pi[o]us Pilgrimages (1847–48) Chapter 3. ‘[S]o From This Fate Shall Grow | The Palm Branch’: Paternal Redemption in Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation (1847) Chapter 4. Of Martyrdom or Militancy? Florence Nightingale’s Letters from Rome (1847–48) Part III. From Resurgence to Insurgence: Identities in Conflict (1849–57) Chapter 5. ‘Guardian[s] of [...] Tranquillity’: The Conservative Turn in Women’s Travel Writing on Italy (1849–52) Chapter 6. ‘[T]he Foreground Is Changed’: Florentia, the New Monthly Magazine (1853–57) and the Politics of Celebrity Coda

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Rebecca Butler is a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, where she is a member of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies and the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. She has published articles on nineteenth-century guidebooks, travel print culture and touristic developments. This is her first monograph.

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