The Resource American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold
American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold
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- Summary
- "Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold extends Melville's transnational vision both geographically and historically by examining his many references to Italy and Rome in the context of the Risorgimento, Italy's long quest for independence and political unity." "Melville's contemporaries, notably Margaret Fuller and Henry T. Tuckerman, recognized the similarities between the Risorgimento and America's struggle for national identity, and the influx of exiles from the failed Italian revolutions of 1820 and 1831 made Melville's New York a hotbed of Risorgimento sympathies. Literary and political expostulations on Italy's plight combined to create a distinctively American view of the Risorgimento that Melville elaborated in his fiction through allusions, characterizations, and direct commentary on Roman history, Dante, Machiavelli, Pope Pius IX, and Giuseppe Mazzini." "Melville followed the unfolding drama of Italian nationalism more closely than any other major American writer and found in it tropes and themes that fueled his turn to poetry, particularly after his visit to Italy in 1857. The Civil War, a crisis for American nationalism as urgent and profound as the Risorgimento, reinforced the symbolic parallels between the United States and Italy and led Melville to meditate on Giuseppe Garibaldi and other Italian patriots in one of his longest poems." "Melville's literary appropriations of Italian history, art, and politics demonstrate that transnational cultural exchanges are not confined to later American writing but originate with the country's earliest authors and their recognition that any national literature worthy of the name must incorporate a broad international frame of reference."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages)
- Contents
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- Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision
- Mardi's Dantean intertext
- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic
- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man
- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces
- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings
- Isbn
- 9780814271414
- Label
- American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy
- Title
- American Risorgimento
- Title remainder
- Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy
- Statement of responsibility
- Dennis Berthold
- Subject
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- Civilization -- Italian influences
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- History
- Italy
- Italy -- History -- 1815-1870
- Kulturelle Entwicklung
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Melville, Herman
- 1815-1870
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Nationale Einheit
- Rezeption
- Risorgimento
- United States
- United States -- Civilization | Italian influences
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold extends Melville's transnational vision both geographically and historically by examining his many references to Italy and Rome in the context of the Risorgimento, Italy's long quest for independence and political unity." "Melville's contemporaries, notably Margaret Fuller and Henry T. Tuckerman, recognized the similarities between the Risorgimento and America's struggle for national identity, and the influx of exiles from the failed Italian revolutions of 1820 and 1831 made Melville's New York a hotbed of Risorgimento sympathies. Literary and political expostulations on Italy's plight combined to create a distinctively American view of the Risorgimento that Melville elaborated in his fiction through allusions, characterizations, and direct commentary on Roman history, Dante, Machiavelli, Pope Pius IX, and Giuseppe Mazzini." "Melville followed the unfolding drama of Italian nationalism more closely than any other major American writer and found in it tropes and themes that fueled his turn to poetry, particularly after his visit to Italy in 1857. The Civil War, a crisis for American nationalism as urgent and profound as the Risorgimento, reinforced the symbolic parallels between the United States and Italy and led Melville to meditate on Giuseppe Garibaldi and other Italian patriots in one of his longest poems." "Melville's literary appropriations of Italian history, art, and politics demonstrate that transnational cultural exchanges are not confined to later American writing but originate with the country's earliest authors and their recognition that any national literature worthy of the name must incorporate a broad international frame of reference."--Jacket
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- Berthold, Dennis
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
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- non fiction
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- bibliography
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- Melville, Herman
- Melville, Herman
- Melville, Herman
- Melville, Herman
- Italy
- United States
- Civilization
- Italy
- United States
- Risorgimento
- Rezeption
- Kulturelle Entwicklung
- Nationale Einheit
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Label
- American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold
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- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings
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- ocn747305633
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages)
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- online
- Isbn
- 9780814271414
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- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
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- 22573/ctv1681mgj
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- preservation
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- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)747305633
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- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the cultural politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings
- Control code
- ocn747305633
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780814271414
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv1681mgj
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)747305633
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Civilization -- Italian influences
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- History
- Italy
- Italy -- History -- 1815-1870
- Kulturelle Entwicklung
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Melville, Herman
- 1815-1870
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Nationale Einheit
- Rezeption
- Risorgimento
- United States
- United States -- Civilization | Italian influences
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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