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  • 24 - Mediterranean Worlds in the Long Nineteenth Century

  • from Part IV - Cartographic Shifts
  • Edited by Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of World Literature
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 458-476

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that the Mediterranean continues to be a relevant framework of historical and literary analysis even after 1800. By shedding light on two microhistories, one involving the lives of two Ionian poets (Ugo Foscolo and Dionysios Solomos) who became the ‘national poets’ of two different countries (Italy and Greece), and the other a multilingual and multinational text, the Scintille (Sparks, 1841), written by the Veneto-Dalmatian intellectual Niccolò Tommaseo, the chapter offers a reading of nineteenth-century literary history that is regional and maritime rather than national and territorial. The aim is to show how we can re-inscribe intellectuals considered to be the ‘national fathers’ of their respective nations, and works—a part today of different canons of ‘national literature’—into their regional and multicultural context.