Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface vii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Introduction: Italian Unity and International Alliances 1
7. 1 Romantic Italy and Restoration Politics: Romantic Poetry, Lady Morgan’s Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga 29
8. 2 Italian Exiles from Young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento Refugees in Giovanni Ruffini’s Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor Antonio 62
9. 3 Spying in the British Post Office: Letter-Opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White 95
10. 4 Wounded Utterance: Trauma and Italy’s Second War of Independence in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems Before Congress and Last Poems 125
11. Conclusion 157
12. Bibliography 167
13. Index 183