Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study

Anne O’Connor

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52527-3_2

Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study

Anne O’Connor

Psychology

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	15-33
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52527-3_2
Publication status	Published - 2017

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

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Keywords

Catholic religion
Irish travel writing
Italy
Julia Kavanagh
Mezzogiorno
Risorgimento

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