City of the Soul: The Literary Making of Rome

205 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm. Contents: The literary making of an eternal city / Sabrina Norlander Eliasson and Stefano Fogelberg Rota "Rome as a trope" : some early modern examples / Anders Cullhed Two Oxenstiernas in Rome : sightseeing, public performanes and artistic education / Anna Bortolozzi L'immagine di Roma nella corrispondenza delle sorelle de la Trémoille (1675-1701) / Anne-Madeleine Goulet La Roma arcade del senatore svedese Nils Bielke / Stefano Fogelberg Rota Sognare Roma/vedere Roma. Il viaggio in Italia di Carl Fredrik Fredenheim / Rossana Caira Lumetti Intensity and irony in a serious city / Chloe Chard Trasfigurazioni di Roma nell'immaginario di Stendahl / Letizia Norci Cagiano Henry James's cultural capital : Rome as a moral testing ground in his 1870-1880 fiction / Elżbieta Foeller-Pituch Hawthorne's Rome and the US high cultural sphere / Anna De Biasio Remembering a Roman tavern. Food, wine and nostalgia in paintings and memoirs by Scandinavian artists 1830-1870 / Martin Olin Art, nationalism and politics during occupation and Restoration Rome : "O che razza infame è mal quella dei leccaculi!" / Fredrik Thomasson Civis romanus sum. The Roman nobility and the loss of l'ancien regime in the writings of the Swedish Marquis Claes Lagergren / Sabrina Norlander Eliasson Mirroring the 19th century. The Scandinavian travelogue and the adventures of Euthanasia Bondeson / Carina Burman.…