Modern Italian LiteratureISBN: 978-0-7456-2799-1
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248 pages
September 2007, Polity
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION: An Overview of Modern Italian Literature
- PART I: The Long Eighteenth Century (1690-1815)
- Chapter One: Cross-currents of modernity
- §1.1. This is Arcadia
- §1.2. New states, new thinkers
- Chapter Two: Enlightenment and the public arena
- §2.1. Journalism, theatre and the book trade in Venice
- §2.2. Enlightenment and reform from Naples to Milan
- Chapter Three: Literature and revolution
- §3.1. Italy and France
- §3.2. Alfieri: life and drama
- §3.3. Foscolo: between classicism and romanticism
- PART II: Literature and Unification (1816-1900)
- Chapter Four: Romantic Italy
- §4.1. Milan 1816
- §4.2. Florence 1827
- §4.3. Leopardi: the challenge of poetry
- Chapter Five: Inventing the nation
- §5.1. Manzoni: the responsibility of the writer
- §5.2. History and fiction
- §5.3. Literature and the people
- §5.4. Memory, monuments and the national past
- Chapter Six: Making the nation
- §6.1. The literary culture of Unificaton
- §6.2. The artist as observer: verismo and the social
- §6.3. Looking in: domesticity and the literary market
- PART III: From modernism to the market (1900 to the present)
- Chapter Seven: Modernism and the crisis of the literary subject
- §7. 1. The search for identity
- §7.2. War, technology and the arts
- §7.3. Narratives of selfhood: the subjective turn in fiction
- Chapter Eight: Literature, Fascism and Anti-Fascism
- §8.1. Writing and the regime
- §8.2. The social condition of intellectuals
- §8.3. Testing the limits of the novel
- §8.4. Resistance, Reconstruction and Neo-realism
- Chapter Nine: From the avant-garde to the market-place
- §9.1. The last avant-garde?
- §9.2. The widening of culture
- §9.3. A minimalist postmodernism: the poetics of attention
- §9.4. Epilogue: a weekend in April
- Primary References
- Secondary References
- General Bibliography
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