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035			_a(OCoLC)747305633
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aBerthold, Dennis.
245	1	0	_aAmerican Risorgimento : _bHerman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / _cDennis Berthold.
264		1	_aColumbus : _bOhio State University Press, _c2009.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2015
264		4	_c©2009.
300			_a1 online resource (291 pages): _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aItaly in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	1		_a"Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold extends Melville's transnational vision both geographically and historically by examining his many references to Italy and Rome in the context of the Risorgimento, Italy's long quest for independence and political unity." "Melville's contemporaries, notably Margaret Fuller and Henry T. Tuckerman, recognized the similarities between the Risorgimento and America's struggle for national identity, and the influx of exiles from the failed Italian revolutions of 1820 and 1831 made Melville's New York a hotbed of Risorgimento sympathies. Literary and political expostulations on Italy's plight combined to create a distinctively American view of the Risorgimento that Melville elaborated in his fiction through allusions, characterizations, and direct commentary on Roman history, Dante, Machiavelli, Pope Pius IX, and Giuseppe Mazzini." "Melville followed the unfolding drama of Italian nationalism more closely than any other major American writer and found in it tropes and themes that fueled his turn to poetry, particularly after his visit to Italy in 1857. The Civil War, a crisis for American nationalism as urgent and profound as the Risorgimento, reinforced the symbolic parallels between the United States and Italy and led Melville to meditate on Giuseppe Garibaldi and other Italian patriots in one of his longest poems." "Melville's literary appropriations of Italian history, art, and politics demonstrate that transnational cultural exchanges are not confined to later American writing but originate with the country's earliest authors and their recognition that any national literature worthy of the name must incorporate a broad international frame of reference."--Jacket
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	7	_aMelville, Herman. _2swd
600	1	7	_aMelville, Herman, _d1819-1891. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00030216
600	1	1	_aMelville, Herman, _d1819-1891 _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aMelville, Herman, _d1819-1891 _xCriticism and interpretation.
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651		7	_aItaly. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204565
651		6	_aItalie _xHistoire _y1815-1870.
651		0	_aUnited States _xCivilization _xItalian influences.
651		0	_aItaly _xHistory _y1815-1870.
650		7	_aNationale Einheit _2gnd
650		7	_aKulturelle Entwicklung _2gnd
650		7	_aRezeption _2gnd
650		7	_aRisorgimento _2gnd
650		7	_aCivilization _xItalian influences. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00862926
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		7	_aHistory _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/27773/
945			_aProject MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement III
945			_aProject MUSE - Archive Literature Supplement III
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