| Description |
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Nationalism and the uses of Risorgimento culture / Krystyna von Henneberg and Albert Russell Ascoli -- Creating a national past : history, myth, and image in the Risorgimento / Adrian Lyttelton -- Dante and the culture of Risorgimento : literary, political or ideological icon? / Andrea Ciccarelli -- Liberty on (and off) the barricades: Verdi's Risorgimento fantasies / Mary Ann Smart -- 'This is Africa' : ruling and representing southern Italy, 1860-61 / Nelson Moe -- Passion and sexual difference : the Risorgimento and the gendering of writing in nineteenth-century Italian culture / Lucia Re -- 'To make history' : Garibaldianism and the formation of a Fascist historic imaginary / Claudio Fogu -- 'Tramonto' and 'Risorgimento' : Gentile's dialectics and the prophecy of nationhood / Roberto Dainotto -- Nostra patria : revisions of the Risorgimento in the cinema, 1925-1952 / David Forgacs -- Visconti's Senso : the Risorgimento according to Gramsci or historical revisionism meets cinematic innovation / Millicent Marcus -- National identity or national character? New vocabularies and old paradigms / Silvana Patriarca |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Italian.
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Nationalism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- History -- 1849-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068963
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Italy -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069026 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
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| Author |
Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-
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Von Henneberg, Krystyna
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| ISBN |
1859734472 |
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1859734529 paperback |
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