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Emotional arenas : life, love, and death in 1870s Italy / Mark Seymour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seymour, Mark (Mark Louis Huckson), author.
- Series:
- Emotions in history.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Emotions in history
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions--Social aspects--Italy--History--19th century.
- Emotions.
- Italy--Social conditions--1870-1918.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Set in recently unified Italy, the narrative of Emotional Arenas is driven by a failed marriage, the wife's scandalous affair with a circus artiste, and the illicit couple's murder of the hapless husband. Imaginative reading of the criminal prosecution records and newspaper coverage allows reconstruction of the emotional experiences of this story.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 24, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180321-9
- 0-19-106126-3
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