Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, - 1870 194

Caterina Bernardini gauges the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and the creative responses it facilitated. Particular attention is given to women writers and noncanonical writers often excluded from previous discussions in this area of study. Bernardini also investigates the contexts and causes of Whitman's success abroad through the lives, backgrounds, beliefs, and imaginations of the people who encountered his work.

About the author

Caterina Bernardini is a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and contributing editor for the online Walt Whitman Archive. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Summary

Explores the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and the creative responses it facilitated. Particular attention is given to women writers and non-canonical writers often excluded from previous discussions in this area of study.

Product details

• Authors: Caterina Bernardini
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2021
• EAN: 9781609387549
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-754-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Iowa Whitman; Iowa Whitman Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies