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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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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Title
Roman holidays.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- Italian influences.
American prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Americans-- Italy-- History-- 19th century.
Artists-- United States, Biography.
Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography.
Travel writing-- History-- 19th century.
Travelers' writings, American-- History and criticism.
Américains-- Italie-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
Artistes-- États-Unis, Biographies.
Écrits de voyageurs américains-- Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains-- 19e siècle, Biographies.
Italie dans la littérature.
Italie dans l'art.
Littérature américaine-- Influence italienne.
Prose américaine-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.