Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture - Revisiting the Nineteenth Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema

Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture collects the work of scholars whose different methodologies and fields of specialty provide a starting point to appraise the enduring significance of the nineteenth-century past in modern Italy from a variety of traditional as well as hitherto less studied perspectives. While the first part of the volume, "Recent Histories of the Risorgimento" is devoted to an examination of the current work of Risorgimento historians, the remaining five parts have been allocated to describe the use of the ninetheenth-century past in modern narratives, including film and, especially, the novel, since this is a genre that historically has occupied a unique position in defining the Italian nation and its people.

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Edited by Norma Bouchard

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• Authors: Norma Bouchard
• Assisted by: Norma Bouchard (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611473001
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-300-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works