Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism

In this volume, a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century.

1: Introduction: The Centrality of Dante; 2: Britain and the Italian Risorgimento; 3: Italian Nationalism, Welsh Liberalism, and the Welsh Translation of the Divina Commedia; 4: The Performance of Italian Opera in Early Victorian England; 5: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Translation and Illustration of the Vita nuova; 6: Ruskin, Italy, and the Past; 7: Carlyle and Italy; 8: Dante 'intra Tamisi ed Arno' (and Halle-am-Saale): The Letters of Seymour Kirkup to H. C. Barlow; 9: Svevo and Joyce: 'La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla'; 10: Leone and Arthur Serena and the Cambridge Chair of Italian 1919-1934