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Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
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Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. By Annamaria Formichella Elsden. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.155 pp. $52.95/123.95 paper.
Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing furthers our understanding of nineteenth-century American, middle-class, white women and their negotiation of social and political identities. Annamaria Formichella Elsden analyzes how Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Edith Wharton used and manipulated Italy and Italian imagery in their texts. Italy, as Elsden maintains, ...
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