Villani Paola Villani

Romantic Naples. Literary Images from Italian and European Travellers in the Early Nineteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

As an urban space that becomes ideal and symbolic, Naples is a stronghold of imagination. Mount Vesuvius, the Gulf and also Pompeii, Herculaneum, Portici: the City gets lost in its own stories. Neapolis as a true mermaid, an irresistible and fatal temptation; on one side, the craddle of a very high and wise humanity, on the other, a landscape of decadence and the homeland of demons. More than a "paradise inhabited by devils", it is a "ruined paradise", as consecrated by Percy B. Shelley in his famous Ode to Naples, which offers one of the most fortunate 'images' of the city during the Romantic age.

This book is not a story of the journey to Naples in the Early Nineteenth Century, nor an anthology of works on Naples, and not even a history of the literature produced in Naples. Rather by drawing on all these fields of investigation, it presents itself as an introduction to the Romantic imagery of the Neapolitan Province, Naples as the ideal place, invented and articulated in the land of writing in a dense multiplicity of forms. By narrowing down the field of investigation to the decades between the 1799 revolution and 1860, this study endeavours to introduce the incoherent gallery of loci, clichés, and stereotypes that have been constituted from text to text, between odeporic literature and fiction, and that too often have been simplified and 'systemised', with the final outcome of polymorphic and incoherent stereotypical crystallisations. A short journey through the pages of Italian and European literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783631819364
• Artikelnr.: 63026413

Autorenporträt

Paola Villani is a Full Professor of Modern Italian Literature at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples Italy where she also directs the Department of Humanities.

Professor Villani referees numerous literary journals of high scientific prestige, and belongs to many scientific committees amongst which that of the 'Premio Napoli' for literature. She teaches Travel Literature and her research interests concern 19th and 20th century Italian literature with a focus on the journeys of European travellers, and the image of Southern Italy in Europe. Her recent studies have concentrated on the investigation of journals written by European travellers visiting Pompei and the Campania region.

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