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The Romance of Italy and the English Imagination
- Italy, the English Middle Class and Imaging the Nation in the Nineteenth Century
Engelsk Hardback
The Romance of Italy and the English Imagination
- Italy, the English Middle Class and Imaging the Nation in the Nineteenth Century
Engelsk Hardback

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In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travelers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O''Connor shows us the extent to which imagination, pleasure, and politics were intimately interwoven in her story of the English middle-class fascination with the Italian peninsula from the early 1800s through the 1860s. OConnor uses a variety of sources, ranging from travel writings and the popular press to diplomatic dispatches and official correspondence, to illustrate how influential the romance of Italy was to the bourgeois, liberal, and above all English social order during a time when class society was undergoing reconfiguration. Her use of the collective imagination as a crucial historical tool, and her emphasis on narrative as a means not only to read texts but also to understand political sources such as diplomatic documents as reflections of culture, make this a groundbreaking book which defies conventional categorization. Also included are the unique assertions that the concepts of Englishness and "England" were conceived in anything but isolation, and that neither high politics nor foreign policy may be viewed as domains separate from the forces of cultural imagination and production. A Political Romance is an innovative and interdisciplinary look at English identity and the role of Italy in its construction.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
246
ISBN-13:
9780312210861
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0312210868
Udg. Dato:
14 okt 1998
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
145mm
Forlag:
Palgrave USA
Oplagsdato:
14 okt 1998
Forfatter(e):
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