Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

In 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.

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“Luzzi has accomplished the first wide-ranging analysis in English of Italian Romanticism and the myths associated with it.”
―Bruce Redford, Boston University

“An important and much needed study of Italian Romanticism in a comparative perspective.”
―Roberto M. Dainotto, Duke University

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine