{"product_id":"revisiting-italy-rebecca-butler-9780367459666","title":"Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844-61)","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \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 Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevisiting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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367459663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367459666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Rebecca Butler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127392563455,"sku":"9780367459666","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ab354e7-7cca-4e69-8585-ddd33524f1c0.jpg?v=1687453287","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revisiting-italy-rebecca-butler-9780367459666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}