| Description |
1 online resource (431 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; 1. Ardor and Apocalypse: The Timeless Trajectory of Margaret Fuller; 2. The Italian Side of Emily Dickinson; 3. Constance Woolson and Death in Venice; 4. Mabel Dodge Luhan: In Search of a Personal South; 5. Yankee Principessa: Marguerite Caetani; 6. Iris Origo: To the Manor/Manner Born; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Our lives are Swiss,? Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859,?So still?so cool.? But over the Alps,?Italy stands the other side.? For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other women whose imaginations succumbed to the lure of Italy. Here Barolini profiles six gifted women transf |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- Italian influences
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Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Italy
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Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Literature.
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Women authors, American.
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Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts.
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Italy -- In literature
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| Subject |
Italy.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823226313 |
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082322631X |
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