Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy'

This work explores Dickens’s perception of Italy as it appears in the travel book  Pictures from Italy . Corpus methodologies, alongside the notion of intersectionality, display the writer’s multi-faceted interpretation of the Italians and his efforts to highlight their multidimensionality and heterogeneity. The book debates that  Pictures from Italy  departs from conventions – it investigates the function of travel in the construction of Italian identity and discus