Roman holidays : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy / edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person.

Other author Martin, Robert K., 1941-
Other author Person, Leland S.
Format Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002.
Descriptionvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Italian influences.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Americans--Italy. --History. --19th century.
Authors, American--19th century. --Biography.
Artists--United States. --Biography.
Italy--Description and travel.
Rome (Italy)--In literature.
Rome (Italy)--In art.
Italy--In literature.
Italy--In art.

Contents Where is Hawthorne's Rome? The marble faun and the cultural space of middle-class leisure / Richard H. Millington -- "An awful freedom": Hawthorne and the anxieties of the carnival / Robert K. Martin -- Fauns and Mohicans: narratives of extinction and Hawthorne's aesthetic of modernity / Kristie Hamilton -- The purloined studio: [the] woman sculptor as phallic ghost in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Nancy Proctor -- Hawthorne's ghost in James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in The marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and his friends / John Carlos Rowe -- Falling into heterosexuality: sculpting male bodies in The marble faun and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- Roman springs and Roman fevers: James, gender, and transnational dis-ease / Priscilla L. Walton -- Henry James's Italian hours and the "Ruskinian contagion" / Adam Parkes -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and imagining urban spaces in Rome / Brigitte Bailey -- The black robe of romance: Hawthorne's shadow and Howells's Italian priest / Susan M. Griffin -- "The connecting link of centuries": Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 / Robert Milder -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome / Robert S. Levine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001035863
ISBN0877457824 (acid-free paper)

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