Their other side : six American women and the lure of Italy /

"Our lives are Swiss," Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, "So still--so cool." But over the Alps, "Italy stands the other side." For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barolini, Helen, 1925-2023
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x09hp
Table of Contents:
  • Ardor and apocalypse : the timeless trajectory of Margaret Fuller
  • The Italian side of Emily Dickinson
  • Constance Woolson and death in Venice
  • Mabel Dodge Luhan : in search of a personal south
  • Yankee principessa : Marguerite Caetani
  • Iris Origo : to the manor/manner born.