Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy : From Unification to Fascism

by Körner, Axel

• ISBN13: 9780203895283
• ISBN10: 0203895282
• Copyright: 2008-08-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Exploring theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, this book analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, class conflicts, and the emergence of new belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Political and Social Conflict 1 Notabili: The Local Persistence of the Old Règime 2 The Theatre of Social Change: Opera Industry and the End of Social Privilege 3 Money and Culture Part Two: Writing the Past. 4 The Middle Class and the Historicising of the Present 5 Medieval Revival 6 Etruscans, Romans and Italians Part Three: The City, The Nation and European Culture 7 Urban Space and Civic Culture: Representing City and Nation 8 Margherita: Umbertian Italy and its Monarchy 9 "Viva Rossini - Morte a Wagner"? From Campanilismo to the Future 10 Conclusions and Epilogue: Modernity, the Political Power of Culture and the Collapse of Liberal Democracy Bibliography Index