
Printed Media in Fin-de-siecle Italy
Publishers, Writers, and Readers
Ann Hallamore Caesar(Author)
Legenda (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2011
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-1-906540-74-6 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on publishers' archives, letters, diaries, and printed material, this book provides the most up-to-date research into the printed media - books, magazines and journals - in fin-de-siecle Italy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906540-74-6 (9781906540746)
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Ann Hallamore Caesar
Content
Introduction Part I: Reading Publics 1. Media, Markets and Modernity: The Italian Case, 1870-1915 2. Reader/Power: The Politics and Poetics of Reading in Post-Unification Italy Part II: Cultural Productions 3. Verga Economicus Language, Money, and Identity in I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo 4. The Cliche of the Romantic Female Reader and the Paradox of Novelistic Illusion: Federico De Roberto's L'Illusione (1891) 5. Intellettuali militanti, funzionari e tecnologici, etica ed estetica in tre riviste fiorentine d'inizio secolo: Il Regno, La Voce, e Lacerba (1903-1914) 6. Towards a Literary Modernity all'italiana: A Note on F. T. Marinetti's Poesia Part III: Publishers and Journals 7. Casa editrice Sonzogno. Mediazione culturale, circuiti del sapere ed innovazione tecnologica nell'Italia unificata (1861-1900) 8. At the Borders of 'Dark Africa': Italian Expeditions to Ethiopia and the Bollettino della SocietA Geografica Italiana, 1867-1887 9. L'editore delle signore: Licinio Cappelli e la narrativa femminile fra Otto e Novecento 10. Il lettore in copertina. Flirt rivista di splendore e declino (Primo tempo: 1897-1902) 11. Abbiamo fatto l'Italia. Adesso si tratta di fare gli Italiani. Il Programma di educazione nazionale del Secolo XX Part IV: Print and Image in Children's Literature 12. Printers, Poets, Publishers and Painters: The First Years of the Giornale per i bambini 13. The Magic Lantern, the Illustrated Book, and the Beginnings of the Culture Industry: Intermediality in Carlo Collodi's La lanterna magica di Giannettino