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1 online resource |
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Toronto Italian studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction The Spectacle of Inventing a Nation: World�s Fairs and Their Narratives in Italy, 1860�1915""; ""1 Prologues to World�s Fairs: National Expositions and Nation Building in Turin""; ""Turin, (Former) Capital of the Nineteenth Century""; ""National Exhibits, Collective Identity, and the Ideology of Progress""; ""Dreaming a Collective Dream: Civilization as Leisure""; ""Of Maps and Towers: A Stroll along the Fairgrounds""; ""Pro Aris et Foci: The King, the People, and the Nation"" |
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""All the City�s a Stage: The Exposition of Hegemonic Topographies in De Amicis�s Torino 1880""""Exhibition Mania on Stage: The Ballet Excelsior""; ""2 Turin 1911: The �Fabulous Exposition�""; ""Ephemeral Architecture and the Invention of a National Style""; ""Building Imperial Consensus: Italy�s Quarta Sponda on the Po River""; ""Italy and the Imperial Paradigm""; ""Blazoned Pilots, Modern Media, and Vicarious Travels""; ""Polar Explorers, �Instant Books, � and the Politics of Travel""; ""3 Emilio Salgari: Writing Exposition Style"" |
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""Salgari�s Novels as Exposition Narratives""""Salgari and the Adventure-Tale Formula""; ""A Life Exposed: The Man, the Myth, and the Nation""; ""The Fall of a Crystal Palace: Le meraviglie del Duemila""; ""4 Guido Gozzano�s Imperial Ambiguities""; ""Reclaiming the Context: On Gozzano gazzettiere and the Archaeology of Verso la cuna del mondo""; ""The �Compendium of the World�: Gozzano�s India as World�s Fair Exhibit""; ""Of Mazes and Masks: India as Counter-Exposition""; ""Beyond the Exotic Surface: Gozzano�s Letters as Hermeneutical Objects"" |
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""Historiography as Assemblage: Intertextual Montages in �L�Olocausto di Cawnepore� and �Goa: “La Dourada��""""Meddling with the Sex of Angels: Gozzano�s Readings of Albrecht D�rer�s Melancholia I""; ""Production for Profit and Creation for Pleasure: Beauty, Truth, and the Role of the Artist in the World of Universal Expositions""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Summary |
According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth.World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism.Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 14, 2015) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916 fast |
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Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911 fast |
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Esposizione internazionale di Torino (1911) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99036402
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Esposizione internazionale di Torino fast |
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Exhibitions -- Italy -- Turin -- History -- 19th century
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Nationalism -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
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Nationalism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and society -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
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Literature and society -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Exhibitions
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Literature and society
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Nationalism
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Ausstellung
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Italy
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Italy -- Turin
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Turin
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442627307 |
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1442627301 |
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