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Italian cultural lineages / Jonathan White.
LIBRA DG442 .W55 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Jonathan, 1945-
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italians--Social life and customs.
- Italians.
- Italy--Civilization.
- Italy.
- Civilization.
- Italy--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 330 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in French and Italian.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History 3
- 1 Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture 28
- 2 Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas 59
- 3 Passion in the Operatic Repertoire 87
- 4 Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification 103
- 5 Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State 144
- 6 Italy's Romantic Reputation 176
- 7 Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism 218.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802092304
- 0802092306
- 9780802094582
- 0802094589
- OCLC:
- 75811458
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