Luzzi, Joseph.

Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy [electronic resource] / Joseph Luzzi. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. - x, 294 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-284) and index.

Italy's ambivalent modernity -- Genus italicum -- Did Italian romanticism exist? -- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart.


Electronic reproduction.
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ebrary,
2013.
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Italian literature--History and criticism.
Comparative literature--Italian and European.
Comparative literature--European and Italian.
European literature--Italian influences.--18th century
European literature--Italian influences.--19th century


Italy--Civilization.


Electronic books.

PQ4050.A2 / L89 2008eb

809/.894