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The Artistry of Exile (Hardcover)
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The Artistry of Exile (Hardcover)
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The Artistry of Exile is a new reading of one of the most important
themes of nineteenth-century literature. Exile represents a crisis
in the always present tension between self and culture, the
disturbance of memory, the quest for home, and the survival or not
of life's heart quakes - all of which became identifying features
of canonical Romanticism. Focusing on two interlinked groups of
writers who, for various reasons, felt cast out of England and
sought refuge in Italy, this book traces the material and
metaphoric dynamics of distance in poems, novels and epistolary
conversations. The book brings into dialogue the self-alienation
and existential antagonism of the Cain figure with the
contingencies of real travel: conversations about writing desks,
lost parcels of books, missing pans and stray camels. Domestic and
cosmic perspectives mingle as the book reveals how writers realize
the full resonance of Dante's vivid summation of exile in the taste
of different bread and the difficulty of another man's stairs. As a
country that only exists in the early nineteenth-century as a
memory, Italy both embodies and energises formal attempts to bridge
the distance created by exile in the work of the Byron-Shelley
circle and the later Barrett-Browning- Browning collaboration.
Examining these writers in relation to Italian art, sound,
religion, narrative art and history, the book presents a new
perspective on Romantic canonicity and relocates contemporary ideas
of cosmopolitanism in the aesthetic, ethical and political debates
of the late Romantic and early Victorian world.
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