Frances Elliot was a British Victorian writer and traveller. She spent most of her life in Italy to which she dedicated much of her work: travelogues, social histories and various critical articles. This book identifies and critically analyses the strategies that she uses in her texts to construct an image of the Italian peninsula for her British contemporaries. Elliot’s representations of the Mediterranean country, which she explored from North to South, from the Alps to Sicily, were deeply ambivalent, and were seen through the prism of her experiences as a woman in patriarchal Victorian England. This volume explores how, for Elliot, Italy became a space of ‘otherness’ with a disturbing but also enriching and empowering potential. Ultimately, it provides an insightful examination of the extent to which Italy opens up a space in which Elliot managed to find her own voice as a woman and as a writer.
Silvia Antosa is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Enna “Kore”. She is the author of Richard Francis Burton: Victorian Explorer and Translator (2012) and Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000 (2008). She has edited several interdisciplinary volumes on queer theories and practices, and has published extensively on Victorian fiction, nineteenth-century travel accounts and contemporary British writing. She is a member of the Board of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA), and is on the Editorial Committee of the journal Textus. English Studies in Italy.
Mara Mattoscio - victorianpopularfiction.org, 31 dicembre 2019
“Silvia Antosa, Frances Elliot and Italy. Writing Travel, Writing the Self”
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Maria Luisa De Rinaldis - Lingue e Linguaggi, nrº 39-2019
"Francis Elliot and Italy"
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Serena Guarracino - Altre Modernità, aprile 2019
"Frances Elliot and Italy. Writing Travel, Writing the Self "
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Claudia Cao - Between, n.16
"Silvia Antosa Frances Elliot and Italy Writing Travel, Writing the Self"
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