The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic Chronicle
This article recounts the Alcott sisters’ experience in Rome, in the contingency of the Tiber’s flood and of the political transition to the Italian unification. The arrival of the King of Italy is welcomed by Louisa May and originates, along with the inundation, a vivid urban sketch written in the...
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| description | This article recounts the Alcott sisters’ experience in Rome, in the contingency of the Tiber’s flood and of the political transition to the Italian unification. The arrival of the King of Italy is welcomed by Louisa May and originates, along with the inundation, a vivid urban sketch written in the tragicomic style of Dickens. Alcott’s support to the patriots is here discussed as part of the neglected intellectual legacy of Bronson Alcott, whose romantic pedagogy inspired Little Men: her novel conceived and written in Rome. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c84eb1a30ec84999a7f254646725de0d2024-02-14T13:19:11ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-933617310.4000/ejas.18858The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic ChronicleDaniela DanieleThis article recounts the Alcott sisters’ experience in Rome, in the contingency of the Tiber’s flood and of the political transition to the Italian unification. The arrival of the King of Italy is welcomed by Louisa May and originates, along with the inundation, a vivid urban sketch written in the tragicomic style of Dickens. Alcott’s support to the patriots is here discussed as part of the neglected intellectual legacy of Bronson Alcott, whose romantic pedagogy inspired Little Men: her novel conceived and written in Rome.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/18858Alcott in Rome; American Literary Sculptors; Urban sketches; Tiber’s flood; Italian unification; Fourierism; Bronson Alcott; Mazzini |
| spellingShingle | Daniela Daniele The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic Chronicle European Journal of American Studies Alcott in Rome; American Literary Sculptors; Urban sketches; Tiber’s flood; Italian unification; Fourierism; Bronson Alcott; Mazzini |
| title | The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic Chronicle |
| title_full | The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic Chronicle |
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| title_short | The Alcott Sisters in Rome: A Tragicomic Chronicle |
| title_sort | alcott sisters in rome a tragicomic chronicle |
| topic | Alcott in Rome; American Literary Sculptors; Urban sketches; Tiber’s flood; Italian unification; Fourierism; Bronson Alcott; Mazzini |
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