Backward Glances
Leonardo Buonomo
Barcode 9781611471298
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Release Date: 01/01/1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
Label: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Series: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Language: English
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
This study shows how, in the nineteenth century, Americans often described and narrated Italy as a way of reflecting on their own country and national identity in genres as various as travel literature, fiction, poetry, and journalism. Indeed, maintains author Leonardo Buonomo, Italy helped the Americans to relativize, if not redefine, the very idea of Americanness.