1st Edition
The Nation of the Risorgimento Kinship, Sanctity, and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy
Preface to the English edition;
Preface to the first edition (2000);
1. The ‘Risorgimento canon’;
2. Morphology of the national discourse;
3. Archaeology of the national discourse;
4. Reception of the national discourse;
Conclusions;
Bibliography
Biography
Alberto Mario Banti is Full Professor of Cultural History at the University of Pisa. His research has been devoted to the study of the idea of nation in nineteenth-century Italy and Europe; to the history of Western mentalities and cultures; and to the analysis of mass culture in twentieth-century USA. His published books include, among others, Éros et Vertu. Le corps de femmes de Watteau à Manet (2018) and Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd (2017).
