Publication

Travel literature and traveling Irishness: An Italian case study

O'Connor, Anne
Thumbnail Image
Files
Thumbnail Image
OConnor_Travelling_Irishness.pdf
Adobe PDF, 571.41 KB
Repository DOI
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
Julia Kavanagh, travel literature, Italy, Irish travel writing, Julia Kavanagh, Catholic religion, Mezzogiorno, Risorgimento
Type
Book chapter
Downloads
Show all metadata
Citation
O'Connor, Anne. (2017). Travel literature and Travelling Irishness: An Italian Case Study. In Christina Morin & Marguerite Corporaal (Eds.), Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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.
Funder
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher DOI
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland
cbn
Collections
Italian (Book Chapters)