Product Description: Dickens and America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so, despite his friend Forster's assertion that his long stay in Genoa represented 'the turning-point of his career'. This book, arising from a major conference held in Genoa in 2007, attempts to redress the balance, focussing primarily on Dickens' two major writings about Italy - the travel book "Pictures from Italy" of 1845, and Part Two of his great novel "Little Dorrit" of 1855-7...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays stems from the conference ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics’, which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume. The interface between word and image covered in these essays embraces the fields of literature, architecture, painting, photography, music and art criticism...read more