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Set in recently unified Italy, the narrative of
Emotional Arenas is driven by a failed marriage, the wife's scandalous affair with a circus artiste, and the illicit couple's murder of the hapless husband. Imaginative reading of the criminal prosecution records and newspaper coverage allows reconstruction of the emotional experiences of this story.
Sommario
- Introduction
- 1: Intimate Arenas: A New Couple for a New Kingdom
- 2: Arena of Desire: The Circus
- 3: Virtual Arenas: Illicit Love by Letter
- 4: Arenas of Mortality: From Eros to Thanatos
- 5: Arena or Temple? The trial in Rome's Court of Assizes
- Conclusion
Info autore
Mark Seymour was born in London but moved to Sydney, Australia, as a teenager. He completed a BA (Honours) in history at the University of Sydney before postgraduate work in Italian history at the University of Connecticut, USA. He taught at two US universities in Rome for some years while researching his PhD thesis. After receiving his doctorate, he moved back to the southern hemisphere to take up an academic appointment at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2004. He has published a range of journal articles and chapters, as well as several co-edited volumes, and he was co-editor of the journal Modern Italy, 2015-2020.
Riassunto
Set in recently unified Italy, the narrative of Emotional Arenas is driven by a failed marriage, the wife's scandalous affair with a circus artiste, and the illicit couple's murder of the hapless husband. Imaginative reading of the criminal prosecution records and newspaper coverage allows reconstruction of the emotional experiences of this story.
Testo aggiuntivo
Seymour in any case must be congratulated for having offered a tool that can shed light on what could be called the social "spatiality" of emotional life, a spatiality that surely is not limited to the specific time and place analyzed in this book.
