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This book investigates the narrative of nationhood during the Italian __Risorgimento__ and its ability to reach a new and wider audience. In Italy, an extraordinary emotional excitement pervaded the struggle for national independence, suffusing the speeches and actions of patriots. This book shows how this ardour borrowed the tones, figures and spectacular nature of the melodramatic imagination feeding the theatre and literature of the time, and how it could resonate with a largely uneducated audience. An important contribution to the new historiography on the Italian __Risorgimento__ and on nineteenth-century nationalism in Europe, it offers a fresh perspective on the public sphere during the __Risorgimento__, focusing on the transnational links between political mobilisation and the growth of new media and burgeoning mass culture.

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Author

Carlotta Sorba (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030697310

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Anthropology