Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 57 | 2023
Articolo | Imaginary Transatlantic Crossings

Imaginary Transatlantic Crossings

Configurations of Domesticity and Foreingnood in Emily Dickinson’s Italian Atlas

Abstract

Basically intersecting transnational and spatial theoretical perspectives, this essay aims at a deeper understanding of Emily Dickinson’s internationalism, by focusing on Dickinson’s textual domestication of Italian-related images. Dickinson’s imaginary transatlantic voyage testifies to a peculiar use of Italy which actually reshapes the conventional travel rhetoric and, in so doing, Dickinson significantly partakes in the aesthetic construction of the nineteenth-century American textual space.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 23 Marzo 2023 | Accettato: 27 Giugno 2023 | Pubblicato 30 Ottobre 2023 | Lingua: en

Keywords Travel RhetoricEmily DickinsonItalyNineteenth-century American literatureInternationalism


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