Roman fever : domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing

Roman fever domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing

Critical studies have frequently acknowledged the nineteenth-century American fascination with Italy, but none specifically examines the impact of Italy on American women’s writing. A number of nineteenth-century women were privileged and daring enough to travel abroad, using a range of genres to re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2004.
Subjects:
Home in literature.
Families in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
Americans > Foreign countries > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Women travelers > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Italy.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649818506719
Table of Contents:
  • A tale of import so divine : new women in the Old World
  • I forgot myself : nation and identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's travel writing
  • Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic
  • Domesticity and nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento
  • How can I write down the flowers? : representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy
  • Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth
  • Roman fever revisited.

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