Chapter Italy and George Gissing: A Geocritical Approach
Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) was a devotee of ancient Roman culture and visited Italy three times between 1888 and 1897. In spite of this admiration, his relationship with Italy was problematic, largely due to personal mishaps. In light of these conflicting views, my essay considers...
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| description | Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) was a devotee of ancient Roman culture and visited Italy three times between 1888 and 1897. In spite of this admiration, his relationship with Italy was problematic, largely due to personal mishaps. In light of these conflicting views, my essay considers Gissing’s portrayals of mostly Southern Italian locations through his fiction, letters, and travelogues. The focus lies here not so much on the narrator but on the narrated space, with Bertrand Westphal’s notion of “geocriticism” at its theoretical core. Far from being a utopian haven, Gissing’s Italy emerges as a trans-cultural meeting point where the perception of an “interiorised place” can reshape reality, alter horizons, and redefine established values. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-923072025-08-13T13:42:30Z Chapter Italy and George Gissing: A Geocritical Approach Gussago, Luigi Geocriticism Gissing Place Spatiotemporality Westphal thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) was a devotee of ancient Roman culture and visited Italy three times between 1888 and 1897. In spite of this admiration, his relationship with Italy was problematic, largely due to personal mishaps. In light of these conflicting views, my essay considers Gissing’s portrayals of mostly Southern Italian locations through his fiction, letters, and travelogues. The focus lies here not so much on the narrator but on the narrated space, with Bertrand Westphal’s notion of “geocriticism” at its theoretical core. Far from being a utopian haven, Gissing’s Italy emerges as a trans-cultural meeting point where the perception of an “interiorised place” can reshape reality, alter horizons, and redefine established values. 2022-09-22T04:10:28Z 2022-09-22T04:10:28Z 2022-09-15T20:08:16Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855185974_123 2420-8361 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58327 9788855185974 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92307 eng Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58327/1/978-88-5518-597-4_10.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58327/1/978-88-5518-597-4_10.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.10 10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.10 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855185974 15 Florence open access |
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