Hopkins and Italomania
A Different Infatuation
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Beschreibung
This book explores Gerard Manley Hopkins's passion for Italian culture. Living at a time when Italomania was at its peak in British culture, Hopkins cannot be considered an Italomaniac in the same sense as the Brownings, Ruskin, Symonds or Clough. He travelled to Italy only once in his life and his personal relationships with Italians were mostly with fellow Jesuits. However, Hopkins's work reveals his bookish interests in Italy, derived from his reading of its writers and from the study of its history, art and music. The Italian pictorial, sculptural and architectural art of the Renaissance and after, and Gregorian chant, Palestrina and nineteenth-century Italian opera are among topics frequently discussed in Hopkins's letters and diaries. Catholic spirituality and theology and the reform movements preceding the Reformation (Savonarola, Frà Dolcino and others operating on the threshold between orthodoxy and heresy) could not but be of utmost importance for a former Anglican and later Catholic convert. By examining Hopkins and Italy, this study reveals new insights into this major Victorian poet and thinker.
Franco Marucci is an Italian literary and film critic, essayist, translator and novelist. Now retired, he was Full Professor of English from 1987 to 2010 at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy. He has lectured at universities throughout Europe and has published widely on Elizabethan, Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century English literature. He is the author, co-author, editor and translator of more than sixty books
This book explores Gerard Manley Hopkins's passion for Italian culture. Living at a time when Italomania was at its peak in British culture, Hopkins cannot be considered an Italomaniac in the same sense as the Brownings, Ruskin, Symonds or Clough. He travelled to Italy only once in his life and his personal relationships with Italians were mostly with fellow Jesuits. However, Hopkins's work reveals his bookish interests in Italy, derived from his reading of its writers and from the study of its history, art and music. The Italian pictorial, sculptural and architectural art of the Renaissance and after, and Gregorian chant, Palestrina and nineteenth-century Italian opera are among topics frequently discussed in Hopkins's letters and diaries. Catholic spirituality and theology and the reform movements preceding the Reformation (Savonarola, Frà Dolcino and others operating on the threshold between orthodoxy and heresy) could not but be of utmost importance for a former Anglican and later Catholic convert. By examining Hopkins and Italy, this study reveals new insights into this major Victorian poet and thinker.
Enriches the portrait of one of the major Victorian poets and intellectuals Retraces Hopkins's Italian interests at a time when Italomania was sweeping Britain Assesses Hopkins's position within English Catholicism and Jesuitism
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Franco Marucci
Themen in »Hopkins and Italomania«
Literature and Cultural Studies Victorian Literature Italomania Dante Alessandro Manzoni Giuseppe Mazzini Girolamo Savonarola Italian Medieval Art Italian Mediterranean Art Victorian Catholicism