Italian Idea - Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 18151823

This book is a dual-perspective study of how English literary engagement with Italian ideas radicalised Romantic culture. Featuring new readings of poetry by Byron, Shelley, and Hunt, it also explores the work of Italian exiles in London, and reconfigures Dante's importance to Romantic culture.

List of contents

1. Italians and the 'public mind' before 1815; 2. The genesis of an Italian style; 3. Foscolo, Hobhouse, and Holland House; 4. Venice redefined; 5. An almost revolutionary queen; 6. Sailing in the wind's eye.

About the author

Will Bowers is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Lord Byron in journals such as Essays in Criticism, Review of English Studies, and Romanticism on Net, and is the co-editor of Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie 1580–1830 (2016).

Summary

This book is a dual-perspective study of how English literary engagement with Italian ideas radicalised Romantic culture. Featuring new readings of poetry by Byron, Shelley, and Hunt, it also explores the work of Italian exiles in London, and reconfigures Dante's importance to Romantic culture.

Product details

• Authors: Will Bowers, Will (Queen Mary University of London) Bowers, Bowers Will
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108491969
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49196-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Italien, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800