Risorgimento In Modern Italian Culture
Subtitle: Revisiting The Nineteenth-Century Past In History, Narrative, And Cinema
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng; ita
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780838640548
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Italian literature; General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Literary Criticism; Italy; European - Italian; Europe - Italy; 19th century; Culture in motion pictures; History; History and criticism; Literature and society
Description: "Confirming Eric J. Hobsbawn's intuition that the twilight of nationhood is, in effect, leading to an increased attention to processes of nation-building and state-formation, Italy's foundational story has been the object of a revisiting so extensive that it merits close attention. The present volume is an effort in this direction. Without claiming to provide an exhaustive, overarching panorama, Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture collects the work of scholars whose different methodologies and fields of specialty provide a starting point to appraise the enduring significance of the nineteenth-century past in modern Italy from a variety of traditional as well as hitherto less studied perspectives."--Jacket.