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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Volcano Lover is a 1992 novel by Susan Sontag, set largely in Naples. It focuses upon Emma Hamilton, her marriage to William Hamilton, the scandal relating to her affair with Lord Nelson, her abandonment, and her descent into poverty. The title... 
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 The Economist (US) The Volcano Lover.
08/15/1992: 446 words, approx. 2 pages SET mostly in Naples in the last 30 years of the 18th century, Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover"* follows the career of the British ambassador to the court of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. At the beginning of the narrative, this figure, dubbed... summary from source:
The Nation The Volcano Lover: A Romance. (book reviews)
10/05/1992: 2,602 words, approx. 9 pages THE VOLCANO LOVER: A Romance. By Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 419 pp. $22. "Collecting," muses Susan Sontag in her latest novel, "is a succession of desires. . . . To collect is to rescue things, valuable things, from neglect, from oblivion,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Stacy Olster
8,323 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Olster analyzes the imagery and the romantic form of The Volcano Lover, examining the novel within the context of postmodern theories and focusing on Sontag's use of language to depict the continuity of human experiences and actions through the ages.
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Critical Essay by Bruce Bawer
5,276 words, approx. 18 pages
In the essay below, Bawer discusses cultural elitism in Sontag's works, focusing on her novel The Volcano Lover.
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