Nathalie Hester

Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing"including its humanism or Petrarchism"highlight the classic eminence throughout Europe of a prestigious tradition inherent to Italy, one compensating then for the peninsula's lack of a national political identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351922036
• Artikelnr.: 49355511

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Hester is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Oregon, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Italy and travel
What's Italian about Italian travel writing?
Performing baroque travel: Pietro Della Valle's Viaggi
Travel writing and travel as writing in Francesco Belli's Osservazioni nel viaggio
Out to the center in Francesco Negri's Viaggio settentrionale
Repossessing travel writing: the circumnavigating Moderno
Conclusion: Petrarch, the Euro, and the fate of Italian travel literature
Bibliography
Index.