A01=Maria Schoina
Antonio Joli
Author_Maria Schoina
BP Ii
British Grand Tourists
British Romanticism
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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cockney
Cockney School
Cultural Geographical Approach
cultural hybridity
Della
Discursive Practices
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Euganean Hills
expatriate identity
gender and acculturation
General Adaptability
Giuseppe Baretti
harolds
hunt
Instinctive Good Taste
Italian Imagination
Italianate Englishman
Italy's Liberation
Italy’s Liberation
leigh
Leigh Hunt
liberal intellectual history
Lord Mayor's Procession
Lord Mayor’s Procession
Lord Normanby
Maria Gisborne
mary
nineteenth-century literature
pilgrimage
pisan
Pisan Circle
Romantic-era British-Italian relations
school
Shelleys
Teresa Guiccioli
Thomas Medwin
Tommaso Sgricci
Venetian Canal
Product details
- ISBN 9780754662921
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning, by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of social and political reform. Schoina's emphasis on the political implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to uncover their complex ideological underpinnings. Recognizing that Mary Shelley was instrumental in conceptualizing the Romantics' discourse of acculturation expands our understanding of this phenomenon, as does Schoina's convincing case for the importance of gender as a major determinant of Mary Shelley's construction of Anglo-Italianness.
Maria Schoina is Lecturer in the School of English Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has published articles on Byron, the Shelleys, Leigh Hunt and on Romantic Philhellenism
