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Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Continental literatures in Romantic-period Britain; 1. Periodicals and the construction of European literatures; 2. Interpreting nations: 1820s anthologies of foreign poetry; 3. Italian studies and cultural translation at Holland House; 4. Foreign presences on the national stage; 5. Continental voices and post-Napoleonic politics in Southey, Byron and Hemans; Coda: the European vistas of historical fiction; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi, Parma. He is the author of Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia (2000) and co-editor of British Romanticism and Italian Literature: Translating, Reviewing, Rewriting (with Laura Bandiera, 2005) and Byron and Italy (with Alan Rawes, 2017), as well as numerous critical essays in international journals.
Zusammenfassung
This book offers an original approach to the presence of Continental European literatures in post-Napoleonic Britain. In doing so it reconstructs a literary and cultural environment in which patriotic discourse - the expression of a triumphant international power - combined with intensely transformative engagements with foreign literary traditions.
