{"product_id":"american-novelists-in-italy-9781512809275","title":"American Novelists in Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a study of the effect of their travels in Italy on thirteen American writers, among them Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, W. D. Howells, and Henry James. Nathalia Wright's thesis is that Italy was a major influence on the American writers of fiction who visited that country. Some of these writers went to Italy for reasons of health. others because they were dissatisfied with the status of artists in the United States and wished the pleasure and adventure of living in a country permeated with artistic sensibility. They all had in common a love for the Italian countryside, even if their opinions of the Italian personality varied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Novelists in Italy\u003c\/i\u003e is concerned with those writers who wrote between 1804 and 1870 or had begun to write by 1870. It deals with their travels in Italy and discusses in detail the treatment of Italian material in their subsequent writing. From their Italian experience issued such diverse novels as Cooper's \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Witch\u003c\/i\u003e, the most lighthearted and imaginative of all Cooper's novels, Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/i\u003e, and James's \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, Dr. Wright views in detail numerous works by lesser-known authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with works of nineteenth-century artists who also travelled in Italy, this book should be of interest to all students of American literature, especially since it is the first book to deal in depth with the influence of Italy on the American novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathalia Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48292078518523,"sku":"9781512809275","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781512809275.jpg?v=1772484171","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/american-novelists-in-italy-9781512809275","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}