Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Wordsworth’s Italian Encounters....Pages 15-28
Sitting in Dante’s Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism....Pages 29-37
Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso....Pages 39-53
Byron and Alfieri....Pages 55-61
Picturing Byron’s Italy and Italians: Finden’s Illustrations to Byron’s Life and Works....Pages 63-75
Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy’s Intenser Day....Pages 77-91
Epipsychidion, Dante, and the Renewable Life....Pages 93-104
The Poetry of Philology: Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga....Pages 105-116
Hemans’s Record of Dante: “The Maremma” and the Intertextual Poetics of Plenitude....Pages 117-131
Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy (1807) and the Performance of Romanticism(s)....Pages 133-142
Coleridge, Sgricci, and the Shows of London: Improvising in Print and Performance....Pages 143-159
Masaniello on the London Stage....Pages 161-182
Re-Visioning Rimini: Dante in the Cockney School....Pages 183-203
“Syllables of the Sweet South”: The Sound of Italian in the Romantic Period....Pages 205-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-258