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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
