Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism

by Korner; Axel

• ISBN13: 9780415962919
• ISBN10: 0415962919
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and the rising middle class, and the emergence of new belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
List of Biographical Boxes	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Political and Social Conflict
Notabili: The Local Persistence of the Old Régime	p. 21
The Theatre of Social Change: The Opera Industry and the End of Social Privilege	p. 47
Money and Culture	p. 66
Writing the Past
The Middle Class and the Historicising of the Present	p. 87
Medieval Revival	p. 103
Etruscans, Romans and Italians	p. 128
The City, the Nation and European Culture
Urban Space and Civic Culture: Representing City and Nation	p. 163
Margherita: Umbertian Italy and its Monarchy	p. 197
"Viva Rossini-Morte a Wagner"? From Campanilismo to the Future	p. 221
Conclusions and Epilogue: Modernity, the Political Power of Culture and the Collapse of Liberal Democracy	p. 263
Notes	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 359
Index	p. 405
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