1st Edition

Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism A Festschrift for Peter Brand

By Martin McLaughlin Copyright 2000

    In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the intellectual life, as well as the emergence of Italian as an academic discipline. Edited, with an introduction, by Martin McLaughlin, the volume includes essays by Ian Campbell, Hilary Fraser, T. G. Griffith, David Kimbell, John Lindon, Denis Mack Smith, Brian Moloney and J. R. Woodhouse, as well as the last article written by the late Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge, Uberto Limentani.

    1: Introduction: The Centrality of Dante; 2: Britain and the Italian Risorgimento; 3: Italian Nationalism, Welsh Liberalism, and the Welsh Translation of the Divina Commedia; 4: The Performance of Italian Opera in Early Victorian England; 5: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Translation and Illustration of the Vita nuova; 6: Ruskin, Italy, and the Past; 7: Carlyle and Italy; 8: Dante ‘intra Tamisi ed Arno’ (and Halle-am-Saale): The Letters of Seymour Kirkup to H. C. Barlow; 9: Svevo and Joyce: ‘La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla’; 10: Leone and Arthur Serena and the Cambridge Chair of Italian 1919–1934

    Biography

    Martin McLaughlin