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Ph.D. (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Marco Canani is Associate Professor of English Literature at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He received his PhD in 2015 with the dissertation Vernon Lee and the Italian Renaissance: Plasticity, Gender, Genre, a study based on archival research conducted at Colby College (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK). In addition to essays on John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vernon Lee, and A.J. Cronin, he authored the monograph Ellenismi britannici. L’ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica dagli augustei al Romanticismo (2014), co-edited the collections Parallaxes: Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce (2014) and Il romantico nel Classicismo / Il classico nel Romanticismo (2017), and co-authored the volume Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese (2017). In 2017, he delivered the Annual Keats Birthday Lecture at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. His research interests include Romantic poetry, Anglo-Italian studies, and gender studies.
Address: Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Lingue, letterature, culture e mediazioni (DLLCM)
Piazza Sant’Alessandro, 1
20123 Milano
BA, MA (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Ph.D. (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Marco Canani is Associate Professor of English Literature at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He received his PhD in 2015 with the dissertation Vernon Lee and the Italian Renaissance: Plasticity, Gender, Genre, a study based on archival research conducted at Colby College (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK). In addition to essays on John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vernon Lee, and A.J. Cronin, he authored the monograph Ellenismi britannici. L’ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica dagli augustei al Romanticismo (2014), co-edited the collections Parallaxes: Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce (2014) and Il romantico nel Classicismo / Il classico nel Romanticismo (2017), and co-authored the volume Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese (2017). In 2017, he delivered the Annual Keats Birthday Lecture at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. His research interests include Romantic poetry, Anglo-Italian studies, and gender studies.
Address: Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Lingue, letterature, culture e mediazioni (DLLCM)
Piazza Sant’Alessandro, 1
20123 Milano
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Nuova Serie Vol.12, n.1-2 (2020)
Contributions by
Francesco Rognoni | Marco Canani and Valentina Varinelli | Kelvin Everest | Will Bowers | Carla Pomarè | Marco Canani | Alberto Bentoglio | Anna Anselmo | Antonella Braida | Lilla Maria Crisafulli | Michael Rossington
Published Articles by Marco Canani
Nuova Serie Vol.12, n.1-2 (2020)
Contributions by
Francesco Rognoni | Marco Canani and Valentina Varinelli | Kelvin Everest | Will Bowers | Carla Pomarè | Marco Canani | Alberto Bentoglio | Anna Anselmo | Antonella Braida | Lilla Maria Crisafulli | Michael Rossington
During the Romantic Age, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s defence of the vegetarian diet significantly shaped his life and reflection. This article explores Shelley’s views on the necessity of adopting a ‘natural’ diet, suggesting that his vegetarianism stemmed from both ethical principles and his knowledge of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century anatomy. It then argues that in Shelley’s thought Ancient Greek culture and mythology forestalled and illustrated what contemporary anatomy would prove. To this end, this article examines both biographical and poetic evidence taken from Shelley’s letters and works before focusing on his pamphlets ‘A Vindication of Natural Diet’ (1812) and ‘On the Vegetable System of Diet’ (1814-15).
Se certamente apprezzati sono gli Sketches of Etruscan Places di D. H. Lawrence, minore attenzione hanno ricevuto le osservazioni di Vernon Lee. L'articolo indaga il carattere di modernità che investe la nozione di etrusco nell'Inghilterra tardo-vittoriana, mettendo a fuoco le osservazioni (e le intuizioni) di Lee. Snodandosi, seppure in modo frammentario, tra volumi di critica estetica (Euphorion,1884; Renaissance Fancies and Studies, 1895), storie fantastiche ("A Worldy Woman", 1892) e travelogues (The Tower of the Mirrors, 1914; Genius Loci, unpublished series, ca. 1920-28), la riflessione di Lee insegue la genealogia e l’eredità artistica della civiltà etrusca, collocandole in una linea evolutiva che congiunge, senza soluzione di continuità, l’arte greca ai maestri rinascimentali.
This paper intends to explore the (un)translatability of intertextuality by focussing on the Italian translations of John Keats’s (1795-1821) “When I Have Fears” (1818). In this sonnet it is possible to trace echoes and allusions, at once explicit and indirect, to Shakespeare’s poetical works, and in particular to his sonnet XII. The metrical, syntactical and semantic solutions adopted by different translators over a span of fifteen years will be analysed in an attempt to establish whether and to which extent intracultural and intertextual references may be effectively transferred to a different linguistic, literary and cultural context.
After exploring how Dickens relates the verbal and visual representation of food to the psychological and emotional depiction of his characters, this paper will focus on Miss Havisham and her banquet before concentrating on “the Joycean afterlife” of Dickens in “The Dead”.
An especially interesting piece of writing is her Italian manuscript Ville Romane: in Memoriam (1890?), ‘unpublished &
only for curiosity’. Here, Lee claims that art must ‘live’ outside the museums, arguing that the artistic heritage should be
preserved for the delight and education of the masses. Lee’s manuscript will offer a chance to discuss her ideas on the
importance of landscape, heritage and cultural memory.
In search of complexity and counter-perspectives, the organizers of “Peterloo at 200” welcome research that interrogates unconventional Peterloo-related texts (literary, non-literary, dramatic, visual) and the resonance that Peterloo had outside English borders. We especially welcome proposals that highlight Peterloo as a cause in and of itself, and the texts it spawned as the effects that “exceed” it – texts which started from it but are irreducible to it, remediations (Bolter and Grusin 2000) of a brutal historical fact that recast it as real and imaginary, factual and fictional at once. Papers may focus on one or more of the following:
• Romantic poetry and drama
• Romantic and Victorian periodical essays
• Less canonical Victorian novels (such as Hale White’s 1887 Revolution on Tanner’s Lane)
• Court transcripts (e.g. the Samuel Bamford trial)
• Visual culture and satire (e.g. George Cruikshank)
• Philosophical writings (e.g. Jeremy Bentham)
• The European reception of Peterloo (the press, letters, essays, poems)
• Contemporary narratives (e.g. Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, 2018)
By investigating different textual typologies and narrative modes, we hope to recast Peterloo as a polysemic, meaning-making site of textual exploration.
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to a.anselmo@univda.it, marco.canani@unimi.it, and giuseppe.albano@keats-shelley-house.org by 30 March 2019.