Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

Participating in the current trend to move beyond national boundaries, these essays examine the influences of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Alfieri, and other major Italian writers on British writers who spent time in Italy: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Felicia Hemans. Providing insight on topics from the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, this volume breaks new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture.

Frederick Burwick is a professor emeritus at UCLA, where he taught courses on Romantic drama and directed student performances of a dozen plays. He is the author and editor of twenty-six books and over a hundred articles. His most recent publications are Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting and Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (forthcoming). His study, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, won the Book of the Year Award of the International Conference on Romanticism and he was named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). Paul Douglass is a professor of English and American Literature at San Jose State University, where he also directs the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. His publications include Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography; The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb, and The Collected Works of Lady Caroline Lamb (with Leigh Wetherall Dickson), among others. He was selected as a recipient of the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society in 2007 and was named San Jose State's "President's Scholar" in 2009.

Introduction--Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass * Wordsworth’s Italian Encounters--Marilyn Gaull * Sitting in Dante’s Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism--Bruce Graver * Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso--Nicholas Halmi * Byron and Alfieri--Peter Cochran * Picturing Byron's Italy and Italians: Finden's Illustrations to Byron's Life and Works--Paul Douglass * Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy’s Intenser Day--Michael O’Neill * Epipsychidion, Dante, and the Renewable Life--Stuart Curran * The Poetry of Philology: Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga--Tilottama Rajan * Hemans’s Record of Dante: "The Maremma" and the Intertextual Poetics of Plenitude--Diego Saglia * Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy (1807) and the Performance of Romanticism(s)--Diane Long Hoeveler * Coleridge, Sgricci, and the Shows of London: Improvising in Print and Performance--Angela Esterhammer * Masaniello on the London Stage--Frederick Burwick * Re-Visioning Rimini: Dante in the Cockney School--Jeffrey N. Cox * “Syllables of the Sweet South”: The Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period--Timothy Webb

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