Engaging Italy : American women's utopian visions and transnational networks /
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Men of Poetry, Politics, and Power: A Series of Fortunate Events
- Armchair Travels and Types of Travelers
- Circumscribed Women and Later Vocations
- Italy as "Museum" and "Spectacle": Actors and Agents
- Part I. Portraits of Diversity
- Chapter 1 Backstories of Diversity
- Caroline Crane Marsh: Literary Activist and Ambasciatrice
- Emily Bliss Gould: Glimpsing Garibaldi's Redshirts, Remembering Sunday Schools
- Anne Hampton Brewster: Escaping Family, Chasing Charlotte
- Chapter 2 Vignettes of Diversity
- Emily Bliss Gould: A Bold Beggar
- Caroline Crane Marsh: Library Lover and Activist
- Anne Hampton Brewster: Mr. Kate Cromo
- Diversity in Self-Presentation: A Summary View
- Chapter 3 Summer of the Roman Question: A Window on Transnational Networks
- Part II. Circuits and Networks
- Chapter 4 Revising Daisy Miller: The Story of "Miss Jones"
- Abroad Alone: Myths and Realities of Independence
- Articulated Fears: The Malinconia
- She "Must Do Something": Miss Jones as Activist
- Chapter 5 "The Daily Ordinary": Language, Lodgings and Hostessing
- Chapter 6 Circulating People, Circulating Texts: Associational Life
- Public Texts and Personal Relations: "For Queen Anne"
- A Wreath of Stray Leaves: Published Textual Networks
- Il popolo romano: Varieties of Formal Associations
- Part III. Varieties of Utopian Experiences
- Chapter 7 Utopian Visions, Reform, and Religious Beliefs
- Varieties of Religious Experiences: Miracles, Mariology, and Missions
- Brewster: Miracles, Mysticism, and the Vatican
- Marsh: Mariology without Mysticism
- Gould: Avoiding Miracles, Engaging in Missions
- Chapter 8 Emily Bliss Gould: "Works and Wants"
- Travel Writing, 1866-67: Hours at Home and The Overland Monthly
- "A Ways and Means Committee"
- Gothic Riffs on Earthly Realities
- Heavenly and Eternal Visions
- Political Visions in "Gossip Abroad"
- Published Documents of the Italo-American Schools
- Private Letters and Their Political Meanings
- Chapter 9 Anne Hampton Brewster: A Catholic Correspondent Negotiates New Rome
- Anxieties of Arrival-Creature Comforts Compromised
- Nero Nardi and the Vatican Council
- The APOSTATE!: Negotiating Roman Catholicism
- Women Loving Women: A Necessary Circle of Admirers
- Brewster's Life Alone: Utopian and Dystopian Visions
- Chapter 10 Caroline Crane Marsh: "The Power of Doing a Great Service"
- Surrogate Motherhood: The Power and Service of Letting Go
- Serving Schools: Fundraising at Home and Abroad
- Transformations of a Reformer and Litterateur
- "In Vain Have I Labored": Ideas of Italian Reform Revised
- Coda: Residual Ripples
- Hidden Lives & Unvisited Tombs
- Appendix A: "To ____ ____."
- Appendix B: "For Queen Anne"
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index