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.
Submitted: March 23, 2023 | Accepted: June 27, 2023 | Published Oct. 30, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Internationalism • Travel Rhetoric • Italy • Nineteenth-century American literature • Emily Dickinson
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