Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy

by Alison Chapman (Editor), Jane Stabler (Editor)

Overview

"Unfolding the South" presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. Responding to recent developments in the fields of literary criticism and art history, the book covers a stimulating range of canonical and non-canonical writers and artists. Eleven essays offer new perspectives on well-known figures such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mary Shelley, together with discussions of writers and artists of newly-emerging importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719061301
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	03/06/2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Alison Chapman is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow.
Jane Stabler is Lecturer in English, University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	vi
	Contributors	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Devotion and diversion: early nineteenth-century British women travellers in Italy and the Catholic Church	15
2	Casa Guidi Windows: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the poetry of citizenship	35
3	Casa Guidi Windows: spectacle and politics in 1851	51
4	Risorgimenti: spiritualism, politics and Elizabeth Barrett Browning	70
5	Acts of union: Theodosia Garrow Trollope and Frances Power Cobbe on the Kingdom of Italy	90
6	Liberty, equality and sorority: women's representations of the Unification of Italy	110
7	The difficulty of Italy: translation and transmission in George Eliot's	137
8	'The old Tuscan rapture': the response to Italy and its art in the work of Marie Spartali Stillman	159
9	'Amiable but determined autocracy': Margaret Oliphant, Venice, and the inheritance of Ruskin	183
10	Vernon Lee and the ghosts of Italy	201
11	Resurrections of the body: women writers and the idea of the Renaissance	222
	Index	239