Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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952162
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Doc. No
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b706532
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Title & Author
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Roman holidays : : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy /\ edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person.
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Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2002.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) :: illustrations
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ISBN
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1587294044
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: 9781587294044
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0877457824
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9780877457824
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Where is Hawthorne's Rome? The marble faun and the cultural space of middle-class leisure / Richard H. Millington -- "An awful freedom": Hawthorne and the anxieties of the carnival / Robert K. Martin -- Fauns and Mohicans: narratives of extinction and Hawthorne's aesthetic of modernity / Kristie Hamilton -- The purloined studio: [the] woman sculptor as phallic ghost in Hawthorne's The marble faun / Nancy Proctor -- Hawthorne's ghost in James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in The marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and his friends / John Carlos Rowe -- Falling into heterosexuality: sculpting male bodies in The marble faun and Roderick Hudson / Leland S. Person -- Roman springs and Roman fevers: James, gender, and transnational dis-ease / Priscilla L. Walton -- Henry James's Italian hours and the "Ruskinian contagion" / Adam Parkes -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and imagining urban spaces in Rome / Brigitte Bailey -- The black robe of romance: Hawthorne's shadow and Howells's Italian priest / Susan M. Griffin -- "The connecting link of centuries": Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 / Robert Milder -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome / Robert S. Levine.
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Abstract
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Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome.
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Subject
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American literature-- Italian influences.
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Subject
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American prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Americans-- Italy-- History-- 19th century.
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Artists-- United States, Biography.
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Subject
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Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography.
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Travel writing-- History-- 19th century.
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Travelers' writings, American-- History and criticism.
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Subject
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Américains-- Italie-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Artistes-- États-Unis, Biographies.
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Écrits de voyageurs américains-- Histoire et critique.
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Écrivains américains-- 19e siècle, Biographies.
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Subject
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Italie dans la littérature.
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Italie dans l'art.
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Littérature américaine-- Influence italienne.
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Prose américaine-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Subject
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Rome (Italie) dans la littérature.
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Rome (Italie) dans l'art.
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American literature-- Italian influences.
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American prose literature.
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Americans.
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Artists.
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Subject
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Authors, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Subject
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Literatur
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Literature.
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Schriftsteller
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Subject
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Travel writing.
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Travel.
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Travelers' writings, American.
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Amerikaans.
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Kunstenaars.
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Reizen.
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Schrijvers.
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Italy, In art.
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Subject
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Italy, Description and travel.
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Subject
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Italy, In literature.
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Rome (Italy), In art.
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Rome (Italy), In literature.
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Subject
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Italie, Descriptions et voyages.
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Italien
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Subject
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Italy, Rome.
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Italy.
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United States.
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Subject
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USA.
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Dewey Classification
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810.9/003
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LC Classification
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PS159.I8R66 2002eb
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NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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18.06.bcl
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20.01bcl
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20.01.bcl
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Added Entry
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Martin, Robert K.,1941-
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Person, Leland S.
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