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Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750-1890: Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750-1890: Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

Mannironi, Giacomo
Romani, Gabriella
Burns, Jennifer

Hardcover

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 1611478006
ISBN13: 9781611478006
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Jun 6 2017
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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