Literature

PAPERS USING THIS CORPUS (or part of it)

  • Balossi, Giuseppina. World-view in D. H. Lawrence’s travelogue Sea and Sardinia through the key semantic domains of Food and Drinks: A computer-aided-approach to the representation of the ‘Spirit of Place’. PALA (Poetics And Linguistics Association) Conference, 2022.

  • Caselli, Tommaso and Sprugnoli, Rachele. DNT: un Corpus Diacronico e Multigenere di Testi in Lingua Inglese. 2021. AIUCD2021 - Book of Abstracts, Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale. (Poster, Github)

  • Sprugnoli, Rachele and Sara Tonelli. Novel Event Detection and Classification for Historical Texts. Computational Linguistics, Vol. 45, No. 2, June 2019 (Paper, Github)

  • Keles, lkcan, Omar Qawasmeh, Tabea Tietz, Ludovica Marinucci, Roberto Reda, and Marieke vanErp. "A Proposal for a Two-Way Journey on ValidatingLocations in Unstructured and Structured Data." Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019). Leipzig, Germany, 20-23 May 2019. (Paper)

  • Sprugnoli, Rachele. "Arretium or Arezzo? A Neural Approach to the Identification of Place Names in Historical Texts." Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018). Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018. (Paper, Slides, Github)

  • Sprugnoli, Rachele. "Two days we have passed with the ancients...: a Digital Resource of Historical Travel Writings on Italy". In the Book of Abstract of AIUCD 2018. Bari, Italy (Abstract, Poster)

  • Sprugnoli, Rachele, Tommaso Caselli, Sara Tonelli, and Giovanni Moretti. "The Content Types Dataset: a New Resource to Explore Semantic and Functional Characteristics of Texts." In Proceedings of EACL 2017 (2017): 260. (Paper, Poster, Github)

  • Sprugnoli, Rachele, Sara Tonelli, Giovanni Moretti and Stefano Menini. "A little bit of bella pianura: Detecting Code-Mixing in Historical English Travel Writing". In Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017). Rome, Italy, December 11-13, 2017. (Paper, Slides, Github)

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT TRAVEL WRITINGS (with a specific focus on historical travels in Italy)

  • Agelasto, Charlotte P. "AN ITALIAN HOLIDAY IN THE LIBRARY." Library Review 20, no. 1 (1965): 15-17.

  • Bini, Benedetta. "Genius loci e ville italiane: Viterbo e la Tuscia nella cultura anglosassone di fine Ottocento." (2003). Available online: http://dspace.unitus.it/bitstream/2067/769/1/159-182.pdf

  • Cenni, Serena and Francesca Di Blasio (edited by). "Una sconfinata infatuazione Firenze e la Toscana nelle metamorfosi della cultura anglo-americana: 1861-1915". Atti del convegno internazionale di studi (2012). Available online: http://www.academia.edu/download/30549873/De_Amicis_e_Longfellow.pdf

  • Chaney, Edward. The Grand Tour and Beyond: British and American Travellers in Southern Italy, 1545-1960. Thames and Hudson, 1984.

  • Frediani, Federica and Massimo Scotti. "Vernon Lee, una viaggiatrice sentimentale e Norman Douglas o il canto della terra perduta". Available online: http://www.archivio.formazione.unimib.it/DATA/hot/677/frediani.pdf

  • Gibson, William M. "Materials and Form in Howells's First Novels." American Literature 19, no. 2 (1947): 158-166.

  • Kilbride, Daniel. "Travel Writing as Evidence with Special Attention to Nineteenth‐Century Anglo‐America." History Compass 9, no. 4 (2011): 339-350.

  • Occhipinti, Emanuele. Travelling in and Out of Italy: 19th and 20th-century Notebooks, Letters and Essays. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

  • Ouditt, Sharon. "‘Elemental and Permanent Things’: George Gissing and Norman Douglas in Southern Italy." Studies in Travel Writing 10, no. 2 (2006): 123-140.

  • Ouditt, Sharon, and Loredana Polezzi. "Introduction: Italy as place and space." Studies in Travel Writing 16, no. 2 (2012): 97-105.

  • Ouditt, Sharon. "Impressions of Southern Italy: British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas". New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415715096

  • Roberts, Neil. DH Lawrence, Travel and Cultural Difference. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

  • Schriber, Mary Suzanne. "Julia Ward Howe and the Travel Book." The New England Quarterly 62, no. 2 (1989): 264-279.

  • Schriber, Mary Suzanne. "Women's Place in Travel Texts." Prospects 20 (1995): 161-179.

  • Schulz-Forberg, Hagen, ed. Unravelling civilisation: European travel and travel writing. No. 30. Peter Lang, 2005.

  • Van Wyck Brooks. The dream of Arcadia: American writers and artists in Italy 1760-1915. Dent, 1959.

  • Wright, Nathalia. American novelists in Italy: the discoverers: Allston to James. Philadelphia U. of Pennsylvania P, 1965.

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