Printed Media in Fin-De-Siecle Italy - Publishers, Writers, and Readers

Informationen zum Autor Ann Hallamore Caesar Klappentext The Unification of Italy in 1870 heralded a period of unprecedented change. Zusammenfassung Drawing on publishers' archives, letters, diaries, and printed material, this book provides the most up-to-date research into the printed media — books, magazines and journals — in fin-de-siecle Italy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Reading Publics 1. Media! Markets and Modernity: The Italian Case! 1870-1915 2. Reader/Power: The Politics and Poetics of Reading in Post-Unification Italy Part II: Cultural Productions 3. Verga Economicus Language! Money! and Identity in I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo 4. The Cliché of the Romantic Female Reader and the Paradox of Novelistic Illusion: Federico De Roberto's L'Illusione (1891) 5. Intellettuali militanti! funzionari e tecnologici! etica ed estetica in tre riviste fiorentine d'inizio secolo: Il Regno! La Voce! e Lacerba (1903-1914) 6. Towards a Literary Modernity all'italiana: A Note on F. T. Marinetti's Poesia Part III: Publishers and Journals 7. Casa editrice Sonzogno. Mediazione culturale! circuiti del sapere ed innovazione tecnologica nell'Italia unificata (1861-1900) 8. At the Borders of 'Dark Africa': Italian Expeditions to Ethiopia and the Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana! 1867-1887 9. L'editore delle signore: Licinio Cappelli e la narrativa femminile fra Otto e Novecento 10. Il lettore in copertina. Flirt rivista di splendore e declino (Primo tempo: 1897-1902) 11. Abbiamo fatto l'Italia. Adesso si tratta di fare gli Italiani. Il Programma di educazione nazionale del Secolo XX Part IV: Print and Image in Children's Literature 12. Printers! Poets! Publishers and Painters: The First Years of the Giornale per i bambini 13. The Magic Lantern! the Illustrated Book! and the Beginnings of the Culture Industry: Intermediality in Carlo Collodi's La lanterna magica di Giannettino

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• Authors: Ann Hallamore Caesar, Caesar Ann Hallamore
• Assisted by: Jennifer Burns (Editor), Ann Hallamore Caesar (Editor), Gabriella Romani (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9781906540746
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-74-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Italian, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000