Lady Morgan's Italy: Anglo-Irish Sensibilities and Italian RealitiesAcademica Press, 2007 - 287 pagina's An Irish actor's daughter, Sydney Owenson by dint of great charm and intelligence (as well as literary talent) not only became the wife of Sir Charles Morgan but a popular novelist and social critic in Regency and Early Victorian England. With her friends Byron and Shelley she shared a great love and interest in Italy. Her guide to Italy (ITALY, 1822) was a landmark of political empathy and understanding for a post Napoleonic Italy in the throes of repression. Persecution and obscurantist rule whether by Hapsburg, Papal or Bourbon auspices was described in depth. Her guide was wildly successful and used by generations of Anglophone visitors and pilgrims. Professor Badin discusses the importance of Morgan's fiction and belletrism in developing empathy and interest in Italy's sufferings and woes. She investigates Morgan's Low Church Evangelistic pieties and her dislike of Papal power, privilege and practice. Comparisons both direct and indirect with Ireland and the Irish are discussed at length as are Morgan's acute class sensibilities and prejudices as well as her Irish patriotism. Morgan's role in the emergence of Italian Romanticism and her textual strategies in creating polyphonic texts (codes, illusions, refutations) are described at length. |
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... human development and its instantiation in Great Britain meant that other forms of identity , such as the Gaelic , were deemed incapable of aspiring to the universal , " those human values " indelibly identified with the British way of ...
... human development and its instantiation in Great Britain meant that other forms of identity , such as the Gaelic , were deemed incapable of aspiring to the universal , " those human values " indelibly identified with the British way of ...
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... human rights " ( 177 ) . The same position is also defended in Italy which is also a thorough indictment of all forms of despotism ( be it Austrian or Bourbon tyranny or papal ( mis ) rule and an evocation of the benefits of the liberal ...
... human rights " ( 177 ) . The same position is also defended in Italy which is also a thorough indictment of all forms of despotism ( be it Austrian or Bourbon tyranny or papal ( mis ) rule and an evocation of the benefits of the liberal ...
Pagina 79
... human Virtue ; but of human virtue , I do not believe that any peculiar mode of faith is to be considered , as it must be admitted that a Brahmin or Musulman , a Catholic or Protestant , may all be perfectly virtuous men , though they ...
... human Virtue ; but of human virtue , I do not believe that any peculiar mode of faith is to be considered , as it must be admitted that a Brahmin or Musulman , a Catholic or Protestant , may all be perfectly virtuous men , though they ...
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Frontispiece of first edition of Italy | 3 |
The Author and Her Stance | 17 |
Score of Kate Kearey by Lady Morgan courtesy of National Library | 25 |
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