Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day

This book provides a historical cultural sociological analysis of cultural representations of Italy in England and later Britain, from the period of the Italian Renaissance to the present day.

Christopher Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter. He is a historically oriented sociologist of culture and cultural sociologist. He has written in the areas of classical and modern social theory, cultural representations, food, and cultural translation. His specialist research interests focus on Anglo-Italian cultural representations relations, and interchange.