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3162797Revisiting Italyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/revisiting-italy-9781000381627/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2315758/0621f805-1155-4271-a89f-b088f7dd6ca0.jpg?v=63838380878793000011481148MXNTaylor & FrancisInStock/Ebooks/<p>With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (181561). <em>Revisiting Italy</em> brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign.</p><p>Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.</p><p>Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in womens travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.</p>...3098776Revisiting Italy11481148https://www.gandhi.com.mx/revisiting-italy-9781000381627/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2315758/0621f805-1155-4271-a89f-b088f7dd6ca0.jpg?v=638383808787930000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219781000381627_W3siaWQiOiI2ZGYyNzQxZS1lYzg1LTQ0YzctODViMS05NTRlZjVkOWNjZTAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEwOTksImRpc2NvdW50IjowLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwOTksImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781000381627_<p>With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). <em>Revisiting Italy</em> brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign.</p><p>Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.</p><p><em>Revisiting Italy</em> focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.</p>9781000381627_Taylor and Francis(*_*)9781000381627_Taylor & Francislibro_electonico_ac4767bd-0aa1-360c-8e98-0eacda48c414_9781000381627;9781000381627_9781000381627Rebecca ButlerInglésMéxicoTaylor & Francishttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/taylorandfrancis-epub-6383fb42-80b2-49eb-b04d-671618d3c697.epub2021-05-05T00:00:00+00:00