{"product_id":"romantic-europe-and-the-ghost-joseph-luzzi-9780300123555","title":"Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the \"world's university\" (Goethe) and \"mother of arts\" (Byron), the influence of Dante's \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters--Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni--profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Luzzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300123558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300123555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009","brand":"Joseph Luzzi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057812893951,"sku":"9780300123555","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_02070054-4744-4e53-96ae-a21062c5fa42.jpg?v=1685049013","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/romantic-europe-and-the-ghost-joseph-luzzi-9780300123555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}