Romantic 'Anglo-Italians'

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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. British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are inextricably linked to the period's social and political contexts, a recognition that results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings. Mary Shelley is given a prominent role as retrospective constructor of the Anglo-Italian group. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: Roots, routes and hyphens: reconsidering romantic identity; Anglo-Italian spaces and metaphors in the cultural discourse of the late 18th and early 19th century; Mary Shelly, Anglo-Italicus; 'My heart is all meridian': Byron's poetics of acculturation; Rooting the Anglo-Italian: place and identity in the Pisan circle; Epilogue: (post)romantic reflections on acculturation; Bibliography; Index