Overview
- Makes available in English the author's prize winning monograph Il melodramma della nazione (Laterza, 2015)
- Explores how narratives of nationhood during the Italian Risorgimento used melodramatic political language to inspire patriots
- Investigates the transnational links between mobilisation and the emergence of mass culture
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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‘A model of how culture can be related to politics, even politics of the very highest level, this book offers a multitude of sparkling and surprising insights into melodrama, opera, and political sensibilities, not just in Italy but in France, England, and eastern Europe as well. The author’s deep learning and elegant style are bound to attract readers to this period that was so critical to the formation of modern politics.’
—Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
‘In this elegantly written and tightly focused book Carlotta Sorba provides an original explanation for the popular appeal of the Italian Risorgimento as an emotional project. By focusing on its cultural origins, this book puts the 1848 revolutionary experience in Italy back where it belongs: the European-wide rise of new media and theatrical performances. This is major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century European political culture.’
—Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Book Title: Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy
Book Subtitle: Melodrama and the Nation
Authors: Carlotta Sorba
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69732-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69731-0Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69734-1Published: 04 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69732-7Published: 03 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, Cultural History, Political History