{"product_id":"revisiting-italy-hardback","title":"Revisiting Italy - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). \u003ci\u003eRevisiting Italy\u003c\/i\u003e brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45582823522542,"sku":"9780367459666","price":244.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367459666.jpg?v=1721090562","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/revisiting-italy-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}