Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture’s contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterprise Re-imagines the parameters and duration of the relationship between the Risorgimento and British culture to revitalise critical engagement with the political dimension of nineteenth-century Anglo-Italian studiesMaps the emergence and evolution of major nineteenth-century forms and genres according to the reverberations of Italian politics that shaped the literary landscapeCovers a wide rang