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World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 (Toronto Italian Studies) - Hardcover
Synopsis
According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth.
World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism.
Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity.
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About the Author
Cristina Della Coletta is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.
Review
‘A welcome contribution both to the literature on international expositions and the study of post-Risorgimento Italian culture and identity.’
(Joshua Arthurs Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire)‘Della Coletta’s work is among the best examples of this sort of interdisciplinary project ... The author’s strength is in her ability to make connections among seemingly disparate areas of inquiry, drawing works together to give the reader an idea of the scope of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries’ “exposition mentality.”’
(Anita Angelone Annali d'Italianistica)‘An exquisitely written study.’
(Cynthia De Luca, Quaderni d'italianistica)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0802091156
- ISBN 13 9780802091154
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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