“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love

“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love

This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure origins and unbroken continuity that concerns ‘Italy’ as a cultural construct. Within both narratives, ‘falling in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francesca Pierini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2020-03-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Subjects:
'italy' as cultural construct
anne fortier
marina fiorato
popular historical fiction
romantic love
Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2020/03/he-looks-like-hes-stepped-out-of-a-painting-the-idealization-and-appropriation-of-italian-timelessness-through-the-experience-of-romantic-love/

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