Modern Italian LiteratureISBN: 978-0-7456-2799-1
Hardcover
248 pages
September 2007, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Preface and Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: An Overview of Modern Italian Literature
PART I: The Long Eighteenth Century (1690-1815)
Chapter One: Cross-currents of modernity
1.1. This is Arcadia
1.2. New states, new thinkers
Chapter Two: Enlightenment and the public arena
2.1. Journalism, theatre and the book trade in Venice
2.2. Enlightenment and reform from Naples to Milan
Chapter Three: Literature and revolution
3.1. Italy and France
3.2. Alfieri: life and drama
3.3. Foscolo: between classicism and romanticism
PART II: Literature and Unification (1816-1900)
Chapter Four: Romantic Italy
4.1. Milan 1816
4.2. Florence 1827
4.3. Leopardi: the challenge of poetry
Chapter Five: Inventing the nation
5.1. Manzoni: the responsibility of the writer
5.2. History and fiction
5.3. Literature and the people
5.4. Memory, monuments and the national past
Chapter Six: Making the nation
6.1. The literary culture of Unificaton
6.2. The artist as observer: verismo and the social
6.3. Looking in: domesticity and the literary market
PART III: From modernism to the market (1900 to the present)
Chapter Seven: Modernism and the crisis of the literary subject
7. 1. The search for identity
7.2. War, technology and the arts
7.3. Narratives of selfhood: the subjective turn in fiction
Chapter Eight: Literature, Fascism and Anti-Fascism
8.1. Writing and the regime
8.2. The social condition of intellectuals
8.3. Testing the limits of the novel
8.4. Resistance, Reconstruction and Neo-realism
Chapter Nine: From the avant-garde to the market-place
9.1. The last avant-garde?
9.2. The widening of culture
9.3. A minimalist postmodernism: the poetics of attention
9.4. Epilogue: a weekend in April
Primary References
Secondary References
General Bibliography