Pinocchio effect
Subtitle: on making Italians 1860-1920
By: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780226774480
Subjects: Collodi, Carlo, -- 1826-1890; National characteristics, Italian; Nationalism -- Italy -- History; Politics and culture -- Italy -- History; Italy -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Pinocchio effect : on autonomy and influence; title: The secret power of suggestion : Scipio Sighele's succubal subject; title: The queen and the deputy : the representative politics of Matilde de Serao's La  conquista di Roma; title: Love's gravity : the preverse gymnastics of Edmondo De Amicis; title: An unwritable law of maternal love : the infanticide debate; title: In a dark continent : Cesare Lombroso's other Italy; title: Social Maria : the scientific feminism of Maria Montessori; title: Maria Montessori : the writing subject.