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The view from Vesuvius : Italian culture and the southern question /

The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moe, Nelson, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 46
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How Did Southern Italy Become "the South"?
  • Imagining the South, c. 1750-1850
  • Italy as Europe's South
  • "L'Europe finit a Naples": Representations of the Mezzogiorno in the Century before Unification II. Representing the South in the Risorgimento, c. 1825-1861
  • The North Looks South, 1825-1848
  • f Bourbons and Barbarism, 1848-1860
  • "This Is Not Italy!": Ruling and Representing the South, 1860-1861 III. Representing the South in Posunification Italy, c. 1870-1885
  • Terra Vergine: Picturing the South in Illustrazione italiana
  • The Emergence of the Souther Question in Pasquale Villari and Leopoldo Franchetti
  • The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga Conclusion: What the South Enables Us to Say.