Pinocchio Effect On Making Italians, 1860-1920

Name: Pinocchio Effect On Making Italians, 1860-1920
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ISBN: 9780226774480

ISBN-10: 0226774481

ISBN-13: 9780226774480

Edition: 2007

Authors: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg

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Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D’Azeglio is said to have remarked, “We have made Italy, now we have to make Italians.”The Pinocchio Effectdraws on a remarkably broad array of sources to trace this making of a modern national identity in Italy, a subject that remains strikingly understudied in the English-speaking world of Italian studies. Taking as her guiding metaphor the character of Pinocchio—a national icon made famous in 1881 by the eponymous children’s book—Susan Stewart-Steinberg argues that just like the renowned puppet, modern Italians were caught in a complex interplay between freely…

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List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.41" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Brown University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Pinocchio Effect: On Autonomy and Influence



The Secret Power of Suggestion: Scipio Sighele's Succubal Subject



The Queen and the Deputy: The Representative Politics of Matilde Serao's La Conquista di Roma



Love's Gravity: The Perverse Gymnastics of Edmondo De Amicis



An Unwritable Law of Maternal Love: The Infanticide Debate



In a Dark Continent: Cesare Lombroso's Other Italy



Social Maria: The Scientific Feminism of Maria Montessori



Maria Montessori: The Writing Subject


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index