Ross, Silvia,  1967- <br/><br/>
Tuscan spaces  literary constructions of place / 
Silvia Ross. 
 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2010). 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages :  illustrations) 
 - Toronto Italian studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The country and the city: vertigo and legendary psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany --  Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: the Materassi sisters at the window --  Vasco Pratolini's Florentine spaces of exclusion --  The Stendhal syndrome, or the horror of being foreign in Florence --  'Going native': Tuscan houses and Italian others in contemporary American travel writing --  The Tuscan countryside: nature and the (non) domestic in Elena Giannini Belotti. 
<br/><br/> In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442698918 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Italian literature--History and criticism.--Italy--Tuscany<br/>Place (Philosophy) in literature.<br/>Italian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ5902  / .T873 2010