Table of Contents

Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler; 1. Devotion and diversion; Early nineteenth century British women travellers in Italy and the Catholic church - Jane Stabler; 2. Casa Guidi widows: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the poetry of citizenship - Richard Cronin; 3. Casa Guidi widows: Spectacle and politics in 1851 - Isobel Armstrong; 4. Risorgimenti: Spiritualism, politics and Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Alison Chapman; 5. Acts of union: Theodisia Garrow Trollope and Frances Power Cobb on the kingdom of Italy - Esther Schor; 6. The personal, the political, and the picturesque: Italy and artistic vocation after Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Pamela Gerrish Nunn; 7. The difficulty of Italy: Translation and transmission in George Eliot's 'Romola' - Nicola Trott; 8. 'The old Tuscan rapture': The response to Italy and its Art in the work of Marie Spartali Stillman - Jan Marsh; 9. 'Amiable but determined autocracy': Margaret Oliphant, Venice and the inheritance of Ruskin - Francis O'Gorman; 10. Vernon Lee and the ghosts of Italy - Catherine Maxwell; 11. Resurrections of the body: Women writers and the idea of the Renaissance - Angela Leighton

About the Author

Alison Chapman is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow. Jane Stabler is Lecturer in English, University of Dundee.