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Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy'

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Authors:
  1. Germana Cubeta

    1. University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  • Unites two burgeoning fields of academic inquiry: Charles Dickens studies and travel writing

  • Uses a corpus linguistics methodology

  • Offers a fresh interpretation of Dickens' Pictures From Italy

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Lure of Italy

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 7-20

  4. Transcultural Views

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 21-55

  5. Italy Seen from New Angles

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 57-76

  6. The Italians in Pictures from Italy

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 77-102

  7. Conclusions

    • Germana Cubeta
    Pages 103-105

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 107-110
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About this book

This work explores Dickens’s perception of Italy as it appears in the travel book Pictures from Italy. Corpus methodologies, alongside the notion of intersectionality, display the writer’s multi-faceted interpretation of the Italians and his efforts to highlight their multidimensionality and heterogeneity. The book debates that Pictures from Italy departs from conventions – it investigates the function of travel in the construction of Italian identity and discusses Dickens’s relationship with Italy. Corpus linguistics methodologies analyse the language of the book and shed new
light on the relationship between body language and culture.

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“Dickens and the Italians in ‘Pictures from Italy’ gives a focused account of this text and offers insight into the stylistic preoccupations of Dickens’s travel writing as well as relevant background about Dickens’s relationship with Mazzini and his revolutionary ideas.” (Kathryn Walchester, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Germana Cubeta

About the author

Germana Cubeta is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Messina, Italy. Her research interests revolve around Dickens, travel writing and the use of corpus linguistic tools for identifying meaning in literary texts. Her works include Dickens in Italia: uno studio linguistico computazionale di Pictures from Italy (2017) and Dickens and Italian Complexity in Pictures from Italy as Class Inscribed in Body and Gesture (2021).

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