Tuscan Spaces

Author： Silvia M. Ross  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9781442698918

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Language： ENG

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Description

Silvia Ross's subtly delineated study shows how much more varied Tuscany and Tuscans themselves prove to be when treated by writers with a profound grasp of the language and culture. Ross's comparative presentation of major Tuscan and other Italian authors who have treated the region presents a bracing antidote to platitudes about (often primitivized) locals written by "real-estate-style" travel writers.

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi’s Tuscany

2 Palazzeschi’s Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window

3 Vasco Pratolini’s Florentine Spaces of Exclusion

4 The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence

5 ‘Going Native’: Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing

6 The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti

Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity

Notes

Works Cited

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