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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.
Maura O´connor
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Description for The Romance of Italy and the English Imagination. Italy, the English Middle Class and Imaging the Nation in the Nineteenth Century.
Hardcover. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 448.
In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, 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 to the 1860s. O'Connor 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 ... Read more
In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, 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 to the 1860s. O'Connor 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312210861
SKU
V9780312210861
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Ref
99-15
About Maura O´connor
MAURA O'CONNOR is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.
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