Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation 1st Edition

Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030697310,3030697312,9783030697327, 3030697320

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030697320
• ISBN-13: 9783030697327
• Author: Carlotta Sorba

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Emotions, Politics, Entertainment—A Nineteenth-Century Transnational Plot
2. Emotions for Everyone: New Entertainment Spaces in Europe
3. A Theatrical Genre for Post-Revolutionary Society
4. Between Mélodrame and Melodramatic Imagination
5. Melodrama Italian-Style: In Search of an Audience Between Fiction and Politics
6. The Melodramatic Narration of Oppressed Italy
7. Not Just Words: Emotional Bodies in the “Long 1848”
8. Politics and the Language of Sentiment

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