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Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys,
and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity
and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in
post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British
Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of
departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what
Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to
the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the
age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an
expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the
establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning,
by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of
social and political reform. Schoina's emphasis on the political
implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated
self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's
Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations
focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to
uncover their complex ideological underpinnings. Recognizing that
Mary Shelley was instrumental in conceptualizing the Romantics'
discourse of acculturation expands our understanding of this
phenomenon, as does Schoina's convincing case for the importance of
gender as a major determinant of Mary Shelley's construction of
Anglo-Italianness.
Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys,
and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity
and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in
post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British
Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of
departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what
Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to
the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the
age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an
expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the
establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning,
by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of
social and political reform. Schoina's emphasis on the political
implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated
self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's
Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations
focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to
uncover their complex ideological underpinnings. Recognizing that
Mary Shelley was instrumental in conceptualizing the Romantics'
discourse of acculturation expands our understanding of this
phenomenon, as does Schoina's convincing case for the importance of
gender as a major determinant of Mary Shelley's construction of
Anglo-Italianness.
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