The Pinocchio effect : on making Italians (1860-1920 / Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg.

By:

Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0226774481
9780226774480

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DDC classification:

945.084 22

LOC classification:

DG442 .S74 2007

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Contributor biographical information

Contents:

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 de 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.

Summary: 'The Pinocchio Effect' draws on a broad array of sources to trace the making of a modern national identity in Italy. The author explores all the ways that identity was constructed through newly formed attachments, voluntary and otherwise, to the nation.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-415) and index.

'The Pinocchio Effect' draws on a broad array of sources to trace the making of a modern national identity in Italy. The author explores all the ways that identity was constructed through newly formed attachments, voluntary and otherwise, to the nation.

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