1st Edition
Revisiting Italy British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61)
Introduction
Part I. Rebirthing Italia: Maternal Nationalisms (1844–46)
Chapter 1. Rebirthing Romantic Italy – Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1940, 1942, and 1843 (1844)
Chapter 2. ‘T[aking] England with Her Wherever She Went’: Maternal Meridionism in Clotilda Stisted’s Letters from the Bye-Ways of Italy (1845)
Part II. Resurrecting the Nation: Pi[o]us Pilgrimages (1847–48)
Chapter 3. ‘[S]o From This Fate Shall Grow | The Palm Branch’: Paternal Redemption in Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation (1847)
Chapter 4. Of Martyrdom or Militancy? Florence Nightingale’s Letters from Rome (1847–48)
Part III. From Resurgence to Insurgence: Identities in Conflict (1849–57)
Chapter 5. ‘Guardian[s] of [...] Tranquillity’: The Conservative Turn in Women’s Travel Writing on Italy (1849–52)
Chapter 6. ‘[T]he Foreground Is Changed’: Florentia, the New Monthly Magazine (1853–57) and the Politics of Celebrity
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Biography
Rebecca Butler is a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, where she is a member of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies and the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. She has published articles on nineteenth-century guidebooks, travel print culture and touristic developments. This is her first monograph.
