The print media in fin-de-siècle Italy : publishers, writers, and readers / edited by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caesar, Ann.

Romani, Gabriella

Burns, Jennifer

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Italian perspectives ; 21.

Italian perspectives ; 21

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--Italy--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Italy--History--20th century.

Books and reading.

History.

Authors and readers.

Authors, Italian.

Italy.

Italian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Italian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, Italian--19th century.

Authors, Italian--20th century.

Authors and readers--Italy--History--19th century.

Authors and readers--Italy--History--20th century.

Books and reading--Italy--History--19th century.

Books and reading--Italy--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Legenda, 2011.

Language Note:

Eight essays in English; five in Italian.

Summary:

The Unification of Italy in 1870 heralded a period of unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures and took Italy into World War One on the Allied side, on the domestic front technological advance, the creation of a national transport network, the expansion of state education, internal migration to cities and the rise of political associations all contributed to the rapid expansion of the print industry and the development of new and highly diversified reading publics. Drawing on publishers' archives, letters, diaries, and printed material, this book provides the most up-to-date research into the printed media - books, magazines and journals - in Italy between 1870 and 1914.

Contents:

Part I Reading publics

Media, markets and modernity : the Italian case, 1870-1915 / John Davis

Reader/power : the politics and poetics of reading in post-unification Italy / Maria Grazia Lolla

Part II Cultural productions

Verga Economicus : language, money, and identity in I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo / Joseph Luzzi

The cliché of the romantic female reader and the paradox of novelistic illusion : Federico De Roberto's L'Illusione (1891) / Olivia Santovetti

Intellettuali militanti, funzionari e tecnologici, etica ed estetica in tre riviste fiorentine d'inizio secolo : Il Regno, La Voce, e Lacerba (1903-1914) / Francesca Billiani

Towards a literary modernity all'italiana : a note on F.T. Marinetti's Poesia / Luca Somigli

Part III Publishers and journals

Casa editrice Sonzogno : mediazione culturale, circuiti del sapere ed innovazione tecnologica nell'Italia unificata (1861-1900) / Silvia Valisa

At the borders of "dark Africa" : Italian expeditions to Ethiopia and the Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 1867-1887 / Matteo Salvadore

L'editore delle signore : Licinio Cappelli e la narrativa femminile fra Otto e Novecento / Ombretta Frau

Il lettore in copertina : Flirt rivista di splendore e declino (primo tempo: 1897-1902) / Cristina Gragnani

Abbiamo fatto l'Italia : adesso si tratta di fare gli Italiani : il programma di educazione nazionale del Secolo XX / Fiorenza Weinapple

Part IV Print and image in children's literature

Printers, poets, publishers and painters :the first years of the Giornale per i bambini / Fabio Gadducci and Mirko Tavosanis

The magic lantern, the illustrated book, and the beginnings of the culture industry : intermediality in Carlo Collodi's La lanterna magica di Giannettino / John P. Welle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [192]-204) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

1906540748

9781906540746

OCLC:

642214178

Publisher Number:

99946476259