{"product_id":"9780367459666-revisiting-italy","title":"Revisiting Italy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61). \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevisiting Italy\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity, and literary authority in women’s travel writing.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eWith the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). \u003ci\u003eRevisiting Italy\u003c\/i\u003e brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810200006753,"sku":"9780367459666","price":187.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_14029186_jpg.jpg?v=1705533669","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367459666-revisiting-italy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}