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The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750-1890 - Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture (Hardcover)
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The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750-1890 - Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
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The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness
significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the
consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards
and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of
writing and performing - the novel, the self-help manual,
theatrical improvisation - develop in response to new practices and
technologies of production and distribution. Key to the emergence
of an inclusive national audience in Italy is, however, the
audience itself. A wide and varied body of consumers of culture,
animated by the notion of an Italian national cultural identity,
create in this period an increasingly complex demand for different
cultural products. This body is energized by the wider access to
education and to the Italian language brought about by educational
reforms, by growing urbanization, by enhanced social mobility, and
by transcultural connections across European borders. This book
investigates this process, analyzing the ways in which authors,
composers, publishers, performers, journalists, and editors engage
with the anxieties and aspirations of their diverse audiences.
Fourteen essays by specialists in the field, exploring individual
contexts and cases, demonstrate how interests related to gender,
social class, cultural background and practices of reading and
spectatorship, exert determining influence upon the production of
culture in this period. They describe how women, men, and children
from across the social and regional strata of the emerging nation
contribute incrementally but actively to the idea and the growing
reality of an Italian national cultural life. They show that from
newspapers to salon performances, from letters to treatises in
social science, from popular novels to literary criticism, from
philosophical discussions to opera theaters, there is evidence in
Italy in this period of unprecedented participation, crossing
academic and popular cultures, in the formation of a national
audience in Italy. This cultural transformation later produces the
mass culture in Italy which underpins the major movements of the
twentieth century and which undergoes new challenges and
reformulations in the Italy we know today.
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