Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy'

Germana Cubeta, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Messina, Italy. Her research interests revolve around Dickens, travel writing and the use of corpus linguistic tools for identifying meaning in literary texts. Her works include Dickens in Italia: uno studio linguistico computazionale di Pictures from Italy (2017) and Dickens and Italian complexity in Pictures from Italy as Class inscribed in Body and Gesture, forthcoming (2021).

1. Introduction.- 2. The lure of Italy.- 3. Transcultural views.- 4. Italy seen from new angles.- 5. The Italians in Pictures from Italy.- 6. Conclusion.              

"Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy' gives a focused account of this text and offers insight into the stylistic preoccupations of Dickens's travel writing as well as relevant background about Dickens's relationship with Mazzini and his revolutionary ideas." (Kathryn Walchester, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)

“Dickens and the Italians in ‘Pictures from Italy’ gives a focused account of this text and offers insight into the stylistic preoccupations of Dickens’s travel writing as well as relevant background about Dickens’s relationship with Mazzini and his revolutionary ideas.” (Kathryn Walchester, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)