1st Edition
Impressions of Southern Italy British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas
Introduction 1. Naples: Liminal City 2. Cities of the Dead: Pompeii to Paestum 3. Magna Graecia 4. Ways of Seeing: Earthquakes and Landscapes 5. Politics and Revolutions 6. In Praise of Baroque 7. Myths and Legends 8. Africa and the Orient Conclusion
Biography
Sharon Ouditt is Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War (1993) and Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography (1999), and editor of Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture (2002).
"This wide-ranging study illuminates how travelers to Southern Italy made sense of a rich and strange world which challenged many British cultural and political assumptions." – Katherine Turner, Mary Baldwin College, USA
"This book offers a rich portrait of the southern regions of the peninsula as seen through the eyes of British travellers from the eighteenth century to today. It will confirm some of the stereotypes readers of books about Italy are inevitably familiar with, but it is equally likely to challenge others." – Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK
