ISBN: 9783030697310 - politics and sentiments in risorgimento italy: melodrama and the nation (italian and italian american studies) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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, itoffers a fresh perspective on thepublic sphere during theRisorgimento, focusing on the transnational links between political mobilisation and the growth of new media and burgeoning mass culture.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 302 pages. 8.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2021. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.