Bibliograph

The Risorgimento Revisited, Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth Century Italy, edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall

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The Risorgimento Revisited, Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth Century Italy, edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall

Language

eng

Main title

The Risorgimento Revisited

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

811489798

Responsibility statement

edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall

Series statement

ProQuest Ebook Central

Sub title

Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth Century Italy

Summary

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy

Table Of Contents

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Revisiting the Risorgimento; 1 European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento; 2 The Hero and the People; 3 From the People to the Masses: Political Developments in Italian Opera from Rossini to Mascagni; 4 Discovering Politics: Action and Recollection in the First Mazzinian Generation; 5 Mazzini and/in Love; 6 Between Two Eras: Challenges Facing Women in the Risorgimento; 7 A Patriotic Emotion: Shame and the Risorgimento8 Men at War: Masculinity and Military Ideals in the Risorgimento9 The Remembrance of Heroes; 10 Anti-Catholicism and the Culture War in Risorgimento Italy; 11 Italian Jews and the 1848-49 Revolutions: Patriotism and Multiple Identities; 12 Liberalism and Empires in the Mediterranean: The View-Point of the Risorgimento; 13 The Risorgimento: A Multinational Movement; Bibliography; Index

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