Year 26 No. 3 (2018): Issue 3/2018
Articles

Beyond the Travelogue: Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s

Published 01/10/2019

Keywords

  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
  • Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home,
  • nineteenthcentury American travel writing,
  • Italian art,
  • Risorgimento

How to Cite

Buonomo, L. (2019). Beyond the Travelogue: Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 26(3). Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/94

Abstract

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) was arguably the most highly regarded American woman writer of the first half of the nineteenth century. Though deeply invested in the creation of a distinctively national literature, she was also remarkably cosmopolitan in her tastes and interests as testified by her 1841 travelogue Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home. This article examines the ways in which Sedgwick, while taking her readers on a traditional guided tour of celebrated cities, also tried to make them aware of the effects of foreign occupation and despotism on contemporary Italy.