Title: Place in literature
Description: "Dainotto traces the genealogy of the idea of place in literature, examining European texts from Victorian England to Fascist Italy. He finds, for example, in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native a virtual thesaurus of regionalist commonplaces. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South mediates between Madame de Stael's privileging of the sophisticated north and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's nostalgia for the naive south.

The regionalism of the Sicilian philosopher Giovanni Gentile exhibits a deep longing for the humanities as they define Italy and Western culture. Dainotto concludes with a close look at the rhetoric of Nazism and Fascism, dramatizing the convergence of regionalist aesthetics and nationalist ideology in Italy and Germany between the two World Wars."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History and criticism, Culture in literature, Settings, Regionalism in literature, Italian fiction, Setting (Literature), Local color in literature, English fiction, Communities in literature, Place (Philosophy) in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Italian fiction, history and criticism, Community in literature