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Titre(s) : The formation of a national audience in Italy, 1750-1890 [Texte imprimé] : readers and spectators of Italian culture / edited by Gabriella Romani, Jennifer Burns
Publication : Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : xvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies
Lien à la collection : The Fairleigh Dickinson university press series in Italian studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
'The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement
in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the
long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of
writing and performing - the novel, the self-help manual, theatrical improvisation
- develop in response to new practices and technologies of production and distribution.
Key to the emergence of an inclusive national audience in Italy is, however, the audience
itself. A wide and varied body of consumers of culture, animated by the notion of
an Italian national cultural identity, create in this period an increasingly complex
demand for different cultural products. This body is energized by the wider access
to education and to the Italian language brought about by educational reforms, by
growing urbanization, by enhanced social mobility, and by transcultural connections
across European borders. This book investigates this process, analyzing the ways in
which authors, composers, publishers, performers, journalists, and editors engage
with the anxieties and aspirations of their diverse audiences. Fourteen essays by
specialists in the field, exploring individual contexts and cases, demonstrate how
interests related to gender, social class, cultural background and practices of reading
and spectatorship, exert determining influence upon the production of culture in this
period. They describe how women, men, and children from across the social and regional
strata of the emerging nation contribute incrementally but actively to the idea and
the growing reality of an Italian national cultural life. They show that from newspapers
to salon performances, from letters to treatises in social science, from popular novels
to literary criticism, from philosophical discussions to opera theaters, there is
evidence in Italy in this period of unprecedented participation, crossing academic
and popular cultures, in the formation of a national audience in Italy. This cultural
transformation later produces the mass culture in Italy which underpins the major
movements of the twentieth century and which undergoes new challenges and reformulations
in the Italy we know today.'
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Romani, Gabriella (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique
Burns, Jennifer. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Livres et lecture -- Italie -- 18e siècle
Livres et lecture -- Italie -- 19e siècle
Édition -- Italie -- 18e siècle
Édition -- Italie -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
028.909 4509033 (23e éd.) =
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781611478006. - ISBN 1611478006 (rel)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45325361b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45325361
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
