Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study

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    Abstract

    This chapter looks at the important societal, cultural, and historical issues relating to Irish travel to Europe in the nineteenth century. Using the case study of Julia Kavanagh’s travel book on Italy, A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies (1858), it identifies how travel to a European country could introduce dialogues about religion, gender, politics, and alterity. Although the field of travel out of Ireland to continental Europe has been relatively neglected, this chapter focuses on the potentialities of such research to understand how “Irishness” functioned in the world of intercultural interactions inherent in travel.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNew Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages15-33
    Number of pages19
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameNew Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
    ISSN (Print)2731-3182
    ISSN (Electronic)2731-3190

    Keywords

    • Catholic religion
    • Irish travel writing
    • Italy
    • Julia Kavanagh
    • Mezzogiorno
    • Risorgimento

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