The Italian in modernity /

The Italian in modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Casillo, Robert, author.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2011] ©2011
Description:	1 online resource (xxx, 861 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Toronto Italian studies Toronto Italian studies.
Subject:	National characteristics, Italian. Italian Americans. Italian Americans in motion pictures. Civilization. Italian Americans. Italian Americans in motion pictures. Literature. National characteristics, Italian. Italy -- Civilization. Italy -- In literature. Italy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11145975

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Other authors / contributors:	Russo, John Paul, author.
ISBN:	9781442687073 144268707X 9781442641501 1442641509
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Italy has been imagined and re-imagined by Western civilization from the latter part of the Renaissance to the present day. The Italian in Modernity provides a comprehensive overview of this conceptualization, in a volume that promises to become the leading introduction to current research in the field. In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies. Covering topics that include travel writing, gender, modernization and Italian decline, national character and stereotypes, immigration, and film, Casillo and Russo discuss writers and artists as diverse as Stendhal, Stäel, Burckhardt, Puccini, D'Annunzio, Santayana, Hemingway, and Coppola. Masterfully linking multidisciplinary sources along a broad historical continuum, The Italian in Modernity is essential to anyone interested in Italian culture and the links between Italy and the United States"--
Other form:	Print version: Casillo, Robert. Italian in modernity. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2011 9781442641501

Description
Summary:	In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxx, 861 pages).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781442687073 144268707X 9781442641501 1442641509