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Autumn 2009 |
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INTRODUCTION |
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D.C. Rose |
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As THE OSCHOLARS group expands its investigations into the
series of movements and cultural transfers that fill the portmanteau that we
call the fin-de-siècle, we increasingly offer Italy as a counterpoise to
Paris. Paying more and more attention
to our key figures Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee and John Ruskin, we struck the
Italian connection over and over again.
The establishment of RAVENNA allows us to bring all these overlapping
themes into conjunction. |
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This, the second issue of RAVENNA, addresses this conjunction
where others of our fin-de-siécliste interests coincide, notably music and
opera (see our regular feature edited by Tine Englebert, MAD SCARLET MUSIC),
the fine arts, and the New Woman, for the study of which we have created two
whole journals, VISIONS and THE LATCHKEY. |
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This substantial engagement with the period will in future
be reinforced by an international association for fin-de-siècle studies
(information from me at finsiec@gmail.com).
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We hope that this will be of particular interest to
anglisticists at Italian universities and members of Departments of Italian
elsewhere. The editors of RAVENNA, Dr.a Elisa Bizzotto and Dr Luca Caddia, will continue to enlist
articles and reviews to promote our understanding of the Italian and
Anglophone cultural exchange of the period. |
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D.C. Rose is the founder and general editor of
THE OSCHOLARS group. |
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