The Lure of Italy
This chapter shows a review of the meaning of travel in Italy in British culture. It explores the factors that for centuries have attracted travellers to the country through an analysis of the works that conveyed a mythical value to this experience. Trave
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ickens and the Italians in ‘Pictures from Italy’
Germana Cubeta
Dickens and the Italians in ‘Pictures from Italy’
Germana Cubeta University of Messina Messina, Italy
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To my Marisa, with love
Preface
Travel is an encounter between the self and ‘the other’ and travel writing introduces us to countries and peoples we might have little previous knowledge of. It was not the case of Charles Dickens with Italy as when he visited the country in 1844–1845, a well-established tradition of travel books had contributed to setting a canon of representation and had spread stereotypes about people and places. This volume examines Dickens’s view of the Italians as it appears in Pictures from Italy (1846); it argues that his experience in the country was different from other travellers’ mainly for his intention to understand the new cultural paradigms. An intersectional approach to Pictures from Italy alongside a corpus linguistics analysis displays that the writer reflects a new way to interpret the country and contributes to the construction of a value system that formulates principles of integration and solidarity towards ‘the other.’ It argues that the innovative aspect of Dickens’s representation lies in his interest in the Italians and in his attempt to deepen the reasons that led them to the contemporary state of poverty and decay. It sheds light on his concern and str
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