The Pinocchio Effect
Subtitle: On Making Italians, 1860-1920
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226774480
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Europe - Italy; European - Italian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian; History; Italy; National characteristics, Italian; Nationalism; Politics and culture
Description: 'The Pinocchio Effect' draws on a broad array of sources to trace the making of a modern national identity in Italy. The author explores all the ways that identity was constructed through newly formed attachments, voluntary and otherwise, to the nation.