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A pair of naked legs and a ragged red scarf: an overview of Victorian Discourses on Italy

The author was invited by the editorial team to reshape this chapter as an introduction, due to its relevance to the collection’s theme ‘Victorians and Italy’. Much material from the original chapter on Ruskin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bulwer Lytton and Dickens was omitted, as well as analyses of landscape representation conventions, Roman Catholicism and contemporary journals’ publishing practices. Pages 38-41 use material which was not in the original book chapter, summarising arguments and presenting new material, drawing together the significance of the author’s work as an introduction to the rest of the book.