The Risorgimento Revisited Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy

by Riall, Lucy; Patriarca, Silvana

• ISBN13: 9780230248007
• ISBN10: 0230248004
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.

Author Biography

Silvana Patriarca is Professor of History at Fordham University in New York City, USA. She has also taught at Columbia University and the University of Florida and is the author of Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic. Lucy Riall is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and has held visiting appointments at the cole Normale Suprieure Paris, the Free University Berlin and the University of Freiburg. Her publications include Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero and Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation-State.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Revisiting the Risorgimento	p. 1
European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento	p. 18
The Hero and the People	p. 37
From the People to the Masses: Political Developments in Italian Opera from Rossini to Mascagni	p. 56
Discovering Politics: Action and Recollection in the First Mazzinian Generation	p. 77
Mazzini and/in Love	p. 97
Between Two Eras: Challenges Facing Women in the Risorgimento	p. 115
A Patriotic Emotion: Shame and the Risorgimento	p. 134
Men at War: Masculinity and Military Ideals in the Risorgimento	p. 152
The Remembrance of Heroes	p. 171
Anti-Catholicism and the Culture War in Risorgimento Italy	p. 191
Italian Jews and the 1848-49 Revolutions: Patriotism and Multiple Identities	p. 214
Liberalism and Empires in the Mediterranean: The View-Point of the Risorgimento	p. 232
The Risorgimento: A Multinational Movement	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 270
Index	p. 297
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