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Exiles, Emigrés and Intermediaries
Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions
Edited by Barbara Schaff
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. 407 pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur
Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 139)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3068-8 Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-3069-5 E-Book
Online info: <http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+139>
This volume explores the dynamic and productive cultural forces
engendered by exiles, wanderers, and diasporic communities in Britain
and Italy over more than five centuries. It investigates the historic
resonance of transnational encounters and movements between two
European cultures that look back on a long history of
cross-fertilisation. Drawn from a range of academic disciplines
including literary studies, history, musicology, art history and
bibliography, it presents the ways in which exiles, émigrés,
intermediaries and their attendant cultural perspectives interact with
the sometimes repressive, sometimes productive religious or political
systems and ideologies that they encounter. This volume pays tribute
to the stimulating exchange, circulation, and appropriation that has
occurred between Britain and Italy, showing that the condition of
displacement can lead not only to the articulation of loss and grief,
but also to fruitful forms of interaction.
Contents
Barbara Schaff: Introduction: Paradise of Exiles?
Early Cultural Mediations
William Thomas Rossiter: 'Amydde the see' ('in alto mar'): Chaucer,
Petrarch, and the Poetics of Exile
Ralf Hertel: Nationalising History? Polydore Vergil's Anglica
Historia, Shakespeare's Richard III, and the Appropriation of the
English Past
Michael Wyatt: John Florio's Translation of Kingship: An Italian
Baptism for James VI/I's Basilikon Doron
Diplomatic Interventions
Donatella Abbate Badin: Lady Morgan, an Ambassador of Goodwill to
Italian Exiles
Simonetta Berbeglia: James Montgomery Stuart: A Scotsman in Florence
Peter Vassallo: John Hookham Frere, Gabriele Rossetti, and
Anglo-Italian Cooperation in Exile
Owain J. Wright: The 'Pleasantest Post' in the Service? Contrasting
British Diplomatic and Consular Experiences in Early Liberal Italy
Religious and Political Difference
Gaby Mahlberg: 'All the conscientious and honest papists': Exile and
Belief Formation of an English Republican
Xavier Cervantes: 'Null'altra Musica è qui gradita che la nostra'?
Cultural Politics, Anti-Catholic Anxiety, and the Italian Operatic
Community in London in the 1720s
Maurizio Masetti: The 1844 Post Office Scandal and its Impact on
English Public Opinion
Itinerant Communities
Stefano Villani: The Italian Protestant Church of London in the 17th Century
Peter Hoare: 'A Room with a View - and a Book': Some Aspects of
Library Provision for English Residents and Visitors to Florence,
1815-1930
Tony Kushner: Negotiating and Narrating Homelessness: Refugees from the 1930s
Perspectives and Poetics of Literary Exile
Tobias Döring: Imaginary Homelands? D.G. Rossetti and his Father
between Italy and England
Fabienne Moine: The Diary of an Ennuyée: Anna Jameson's Sentimental
Journey to Italy or the Exile of a Fragmented Heart
Christopher Whalen: 'A Little Ireland': James Joyce, Dublin, and Trieste
Mara Cambiaghi: The Inner Exile of Beppe Fenoglio
Mobile Aesthetics
Brendan Cassidy: Gavin Hamilton: A Scots Dealer in Old Masters in 18th
Century Rome
David Ekserdjian: Crowe and Cavalcaselle then and now
Emma Sutton: 'English Enthusiasts': Vernon Lee and Italian Opera
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