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This study shows how, in the nineteenth century, Americans often described and narrated Italy as a way of reflecting on their own country and national identity in genres as various as travel literature, fiction, poetry, and journalism. Indeed, maintains author Leonardo Buonomo, Italy helped the Americans to relativize, if not redefine, the very idea of Americanness.

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    Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Publication Date: 01/01/1996
    ISBN13: 9781611471298, 978-1611471298
    ISBN10: 161147129X

    Number of Pages: 115

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    This study shows how, in the nineteenth century, Americans often described and narrated Italy as a way of reflecting on their own country and national identity in genres as various as travel literature, fiction, poetry, and journalism. Indeed, maintains author Leonardo Buonomo, Italy helped the Americans to relativize, if not redefine, the very idea of Americanness.

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