Description: Backward Glances : Exploring Italy, Reinterpreting America (1), Hardcover by Buonomo, Leonardo, ISBN 161147129X, ISBN-13 9781611471298, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This study shows how, in the nineteenth century, Americans often described and narrated Italy as a way of reflecting on their own country and national identity in genres as various as travel literature, fiction, poetry, and journalism. Indeed, maintains author Leonardo Buonomo, Italy helped the Americans to relativize, if not redefine, the very idea of Americanness. The texts discussed here are James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo (1831), Henry T. Tuckerman's The Italian Sketch Book (1835), Margaret Fuller's travel letters for The New York Tribune (1847-49), Julia Ward Howe's Passion Flowers (1854), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), Henry P. Leland's Americans in Rome (1863), and William Dean Howells's Venetian Life (1866). Reading them as both literary and ethnographic documents, Buonomo contends that, although the texts were enjoyed primarily for their poetic vistas and panoramas, they also provided a running commentary on Italian customs and character.
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Book Title: Backward Glances : Exploring Italy, Reinterpreting America (1831-
Number of Pages: 115 Pages
Publication Name: Backward Glances
Language: English
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication Year: 1996
Subject: Référence
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Leonardo Buonomo
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
