Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

287. Travel Writing in and out of Italy: Representations of the Other

3:30–4:45 p.m., Edison, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature

Presiding: Silvia Mariana Ross, Univ. Coll. Cork

1. “Performing Cultural Encounters in Baroque Italian Travel Writing,” Nathalie Claire Hester, Univ. of Oregon

2. “When in Rome: Dickens, Symonds, and the Italian ‘Other,’” Oliver Samuel Buckton, Florida Atlantic Univ.

3. “Aesthetics in the ‘Contact Zones’: Paolo Mantegazza’s Travelogues,” Nicoletta Pireddu, Georgetown Univ.

4. “Italia turistica: Tourist Guidebooks and Narratives of Italy,” Stephanie Hom Cary, Univ. of California, Berkeley

For copies of abstracts, visit www.ucc.ie/italian/mla2005travelwritingitaly.html.

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