Italy in the American Imagination
In this comprehensive study, Ian J. Bickerton explores the fluid and multi-dimensional interactions Americans have with Italian culture and society, offering a new and novel way of considering the influence of Italy upon the United States. Bickerton argues that a true understanding of the United Sta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Our Imagination
- 2 The American Founders and Rome
- 3 Italian Music and the American Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
- 4 Americans Imagining Italy, 1800–1865
- 5 Post-Civil War Imaginings of Italy
- 6 Americans in Italy, 1865–1914
- 7 American Art Collectors and Their Imaginings
- 8 Italians Imagined in the U.S. 1900–1940
- 9 Twentieth-Century Opera and the American Imagination
- 10 Italy Imagined in World War II and Beyond
- 11 Imagined Italy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
- 12 Conclusion