Roman fever : domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing /

A number of nineteenth-century American women were privileged and daring enough to travel abroad, using a range of genres to respond discursively to their new surrounding. The author's study groups six women, whose writings were shaped by their encounters with Italy, to investigate women's...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Weitere Titel:

Roman fever

1. Verfasser:

Elsden, Annamaria Formichella

Format:

Elektronisch E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Veröffentlicht:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2018.

Zusammenfassung:

A number of nineteenth-century American women were privileged and daring enough to travel abroad, using a range of genres to respond discursively to their new surrounding. The author's study groups six women, whose writings were shaped by their encounters with Italy, to investigate women's attempts to leave behind the domestic, in all senses of that term. --book cover.

Umfang:

1 online resource (xxiv, 155 pages)

Schlagworte:

American literature > Women authors.

Bezugswerke:

Parallelausgabe: 0-8142-0946-7