OFF THE BEATEN TRACK IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY WITH THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE Questioning Victorian Models of Masculinity through Narratives of Travel in A Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches (1862)

Capancioni, C. (2025) OFF THE BEATEN TRACK IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY WITH THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE Questioning Victorian Models of Masculinity through Narratives of Travel in A Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches (1862). In: LA MASCOLINITÀ NELLA LETTERATURA E NELLE ARTI Decostruzione/evoluzione di modelli identitari. Il Segno e le Lettere (32). LED, Milan, pp. 39-55. ISBN 978-88-5513-206-0

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Abstract

This chapter questions Victorian models of masculinity through a little-known travelogue entitled A Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches, published by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892) in 1862. Trollope was a prolific British writer whose career was defined by his life in Italy from 1843 to 1887, a period in which he witnessed the establishment of the Italian Kingdom. While the peninsula remained a central destination for the British traveller, in the second half of the nineteenth century, its traditionally feminised representation was questioned by politically engaged writers, like Trollope, who claimed instead masculine gendering for the newly united country. As a modern nation, Trollope believed, the Kingdom of Italy required a masculine image and, in A Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches, he goes off the beaten track to shape one in contrast with that of la bella Italia.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions:	School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Claudia Capancioni
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2025 08:50
Last Modified:	02 Sep 2025 08:50
URI:	https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1255

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