| Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Sorba, Carlotta (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030697312 ISBN-13: 9783030697310 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - History | Social History - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.17 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates the narrative of nationhood during the Italian Risorgimento and its ability to reach a new and wider audience. In Italy, an extraordinary emotional excitement pervaded the struggle for national independence, suffusing the speeches and actions of patriots. This book shows how this ardour borrowed the tones, figures and spectacular nature of the melodramatic imagination feeding the theatre and literature of the time, and how it could resonate with a largely uneducated audience. An important contribution to the new historiography on the Italian Risorgimento and on nineteenth-century nationalism in Europe, it offers a fresh perspective on the public sphere during the Risorgimento, focusing on the transnational links between political mobilisation and the growth of new media and burgeoning mass culture. |