Studies in European Culture and History
© 2008
Converting a Nation
A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy
Authors: Lang, A.
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- About this book
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Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.
- About the authors
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ARIELLA LANG is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, USA.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Reading Between the Lines
Pages 11-30
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Rewriting the Jew in Restoration Italy
Pages 31-72
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Proselytization as a Nationalist Project
Pages 75-103
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Conversion and National Identity
Pages 105-135
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Converting a Nation
- Book Subtitle
- A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy
- Authors
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- A. Lang
- Series Title
- Studies in European Culture and History
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61581-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230615816
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-60672-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-37407-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 247
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