D. H. Lawrence's Italian Travel Literature and Translations of Giovanni Verga

"While travel literature, particularly the Italian travel literature of D.H. Lawrence - Twilight in Italy (1916), Sea and Sardinia (1921), and Etruscan Places (1927; 1932) - has received a great deal of attention in recent years, nobody has examined this work from a Bakhtinian viewpoint. This approach allows us a unique perspective as well as a new appreciation of both Lawrence and Mikhail Bakhtin. This is also true with respect to translation studies where the reader will find Lawrence's work on Giovanni Verga presented in a new and suggestive fashion. In short, this book provides new insights into D.H. Lawrence's relationship to the Italian Other (as well as charts the permutations within himself)."--Jacket.