Exiles, emigrés and intermediaries : Anglo-Italian cultural transactions / / edited by Barbara Schaff.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 139
• TeilnehmendeR: Schaff, Barbara.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 139.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume explores the dynamic and productive cultural forces engendered by exiles, wanderers, and diasporic communities in Britain and Italy over more than five centuries. It investigates the historic resonance of transnational encounters and movements between two European cultures that look back on a long history of cross-fertilisation. Drawn from a range of academic disciplines including literary studies, history, musicology, art history and bibliography, it presents the ways in which exiles, émigrés, intermediaries and their attendant cultural perspectives interact with the sometimes repressive, sometimes productive religious or political systems and ideologies that they encounter. This volume pays tribute to the stimulating exchange, circulation, and appropriation that has occurred between Britain and Italy, showing that the condition of displacement can lead not only to the articulation of loss and grief, but also to fruitful forms of interaction.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Paradise of Exiles? / Barbara Schaff -- ‘Amydde the see’ (‘in alto mar’): Chaucer, Petrarch, and the Poetics of Exile / William Thomas Rossiter -- Nationalising History? Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia, Shakespeare’s Richard III, and the Appropriation of the English Past / Ralf Hertel -- John Florio’s Translation of Kingship: An Italian Baptism for James VI/I’s Basilikon Doron / Michael Wyatt -- Lady Morgan, an Ambassador of Goodwill to Italian Exiles / Donatella Abbate Badin -- James Montgomery Stuart: A Scotsman in Florence / Simonetta Berbeglia -- John Hookham Frere, Gabriele Rossetti, and Anglo-Italian Cooperation in Exile / Peter Vassallo -- The ‘Pleasantest Post’ in the Service? Contrasting British Diplomatic and Consular Experiences in Early Liberal Italy / Owain J. Wright -- ‘All the conscientious and honest papists’: Exile and Belief Formation of an English Republican / Gaby Mahlberg -- ‘Null’altra Musica è qui gradita che la nostra’? Cultural Politics, Anti-Catholic Anxiety, and the Italian Operatic Community in London in the 1720's / Xavier Cervantes -- The 1844 Post Office Scandal and its Impact on English Public Opinion / Maurizio Masetti -- The Italian Protestant Church of London in the 17th Century / Stefano Villani -- ‘A Room with a View – and a Book’: Some Aspects of Library Provision for English Residents and Visitors to Florence, 1815-1930 / Peter Hoare -- Negotiating and Narrating Homelessness: Refugees from the 1930's / Tony Kushner -- Imaginary Homelands? D.G. Rossetti and his Father between Italy and England / Tobias Döring -- The Diary of an Ennuyée: Anna Jameson’s Sentimental Journey to Italy or the Exile of a Fragmented Heart / Fabienne Moine -- ‘A Little Ireland’: James Joyce, Dublin, and Trieste / Christopher Whalen -- The Inner Exile of Beppe Fenoglio / Mara Cambiaghi -- Gavin Hamilton: A Scots Dealer in Old Masters in 18th Century Rome / Brendan Cassidy -- Crowe and Cavalcaselle then and now / David Ekserdjian -- ‘English Enthusiasts’: Vernon Lee and Italian Opera / Emma Sutton -- Notes on Contributors.