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The formation of a national audience in Italy, 1750-1890 : readers and spectators of Italian culture

Title
The formation of a national audience in Italy, 1750-1890 : readers and spectators of Italian culture / edited by Gabriella Romani, Jennifer Burns.
Publication
Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Romani, Gabriella
  • Burns, Jennifer
Description
xvii, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies
Uniform Title
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / by Jennifer Burns and Gabriella Romani -- Readership and consumerism. Giacomo Mannironi: The economics of reading: cultural consumption of novels and letteratura amena in eighteenth-century Venice -- Roberto Risso: "The virtue of wanting": Galatei and readers in nineteenth-century Italy: training the citizen and educating the public between bourgeois values and the risorgimento -- Gabriella Romani: National readership and cultural consumerism in late nineteenth-century Italy: Edmondo de Amicis and the sentimental appeal of his fiction -- Giulia Brian: A "question of rule of thumb!" Antonio Fogazzaro between publishers and readers -- Authorship, readership and the press. Martina Piperno: Constructing the myth of Vico between press and literature (1802-1846) -- Fabio Camilletti: Towards an archaeology of Italian modernity: re-thinking the classicist/romantic quarrel -- Federico Casari: Defining young audiences in post-unification Italy: participation and interaction in the political and literary press -- Fabio Finotti: A force field: literature, journalism and the market at the end of the nineteenth century -- Gendered readership and spectatorship. Paola Giuli: From academy to stage: improvisation, gender and national character -- Adriana Chemello: The revolution in reading: from Manzoni's "twenty-five readers" to the "twenty-five thousand female readers" of romanzi d'appendici -- Olivia Santovetti: Reading as "evasione militante": Fosca (1869) by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti -- Maria Grazia Lolla: Bovarysm in a new key: the reader of novels and the social sciences in fin-de-siècle Italy -- Ombretta Frau and Cristina Gragnani: La piccola posta: twitter for the nineteenth-century-woman? -- Katharine Mitchell: Evenings out: female spectators of opera and theatre in late nineteenth-century Italy.
Call Number
JFE 17-6978
ISBN
  • 9781611478006
  • 1611478006
LCCN
  • 2017007819
  • 40027281324
OCLC
973920594
Title
The formation of a national audience in Italy, 1750-1890 : readers and spectators of Italian culture / edited by Gabriella Romani, Jennifer Burns.
Publisher
Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1899
Added Author
Romani, Gabriella, editor.
Burns, Jennifer, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Formation of a national audience in Italy, 1750-1890 Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017 9781611478013
Other Standard Identifier
40027281324
Research Call Number
JFE 17-6978
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