ISBN:
9781438488448
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Madden, Etta M., - 1962- Engaging Italy
DDC:
305.420945
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Men of Poetry, Politics, and Power: A Series of Fortunate Events -- Armchair Travels and Types of Travelers -- Circumscribed Women and Later Vocations -- Italy as "Museum" and "Spectacle": Actors and Agents -- Part I. Portraits of Diversity -- Chapter 1 Backstories of Diversity -- Caroline Crane Marsh: Literary Activist and Ambasciatrice -- Emily Bliss Gould: Glimpsing Garibaldi's Redshirts, Remembering Sunday Schools -- Anne Hampton Brewster: Escaping Family, Chasing Charlotte -- Chapter 2 Vignettes of Diversity -- Emily Bliss Gould: A Bold Beggar -- Caroline Crane Marsh: Library Lover and Activist -- Anne Hampton Brewster: Mr. Kate Cromo -- Diversity in Self-Presentation: A Summary View -- Chapter 3 Summer of the Roman Question: A Window on Transnational Networks -- Part II. Circuits and Networks -- Chapter 4 Revising Daisy Miller: The Story of "Miss Jones" -- Abroad Alone: Myths and Realities of Independence -- Articulated Fears: The Malinconia -- She "Must Do Something": Miss Jones as Activist -- Chapter 5 "The Daily Ordinary": Language, Lodgings and Hostessing -- Chapter 6 Circulating People, Circulating Texts: Associational Life -- Public Texts and Personal Relations: "For Queen Anne" -- A Wreath of Stray Leaves: Published Textual Networks -- Il popolo romano: Varieties of Formal Associations -- Part III. Varieties of Utopian Experiences -- Chapter 7 Utopian Visions, Reform, and Religious Beliefs -- Varieties of Religious Experiences: Miracles, Mariology, and Missions -- Brewster: Miracles, Mysticism, and the Vatican -- Marsh: Mariology without Mysticism -- Gould: Avoiding Miracles, Engaging in Missions -- Chapter 8 Emily Bliss Gould: "Works and Wants" -- Travel Writing, 1866-67: Hours at Home and The Overland Monthly.
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