Dante and Italy in British Romanticism


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From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism.




Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture


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The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based upon the city’s republican political constitution. Hamburg’s independence and its tolerant and cosmopolitan political traditions made it a focal point for progressive cultural developments during the period of the Enlightenment and after. The contributions collected here transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by giving equal attention to literature, music, and theater, as well as to architecture and city planning. Key essays address the role that figures as diverse as C.P.E. Bach, Lessing, Klopstock, Heine, Brahms, and Thomas Mann played in shaping Hamburg’s exceptional quality as a center of culture. This volume will be of interest not only to scholars doing research on Hamburg, but also to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century Germany.




The Remarkable History of the Rise and Fall of Masaniello, the Fisherman of Naples


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Excerpt from The Remarkable History of the Rise and Fall of Masaniello, the Fisherman of Naples: Containing an Exact and Impartial Relation of the Tumults and Popular Insurrections That Happened in That Kingdom, on Account of the Tax Upon Fruits The Royal City of Naples is full' of People, and many Families were undone by the Weight of Taxes 5 but this Gabel upon Fruit was the greatelt Grievance, and they refolved not to indure it. They had often by their Agents, reprefented the Hardfhips of this A612, to the molt Excellent the Duke of Arcos, Viceroy of the Kin g dom; the Women and Children wou'd often meet him in' the Street, and With miferable Cries and Lamentations beg of him to releal'e the Gabel: and the Citizens of Lavinaro, and other Quarters, placed themfelves in Com panics, as he pan'ed upon a Day thro' the market-place, to pay his Donation to the mol't holy mother of Carmine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




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Recent Trends in Translation Studies


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This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the specific historical and socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It addresses research questions relevant to English historical, literary, cultural and language studies, as well as empirical translation studies. The book is divided into four chapters, each covering a specific research area in the scholarly field of translation studies: namely, historiography, literary translation, specialized translation and multimodality. Each case study selected for this volume has been conducted with critical insight and methodological rigour, and makes a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge in the descriptive and applied branches of a discipline that, since its foundation nearly 50 years ago, has concerned itself with the description, theory and practice of translating and interpreting.













The Remarkable History of the Rise and Fall of Masaniello, the Fisherman of Naples


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