The struggle for life and the modern Italian novel, 1859-1925 / Andrea Sartori.

This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italys unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabula...

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Main Author: Sartori, Andrea (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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520 |a This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italys unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabulary to write about the contradictions and the contrasting tensions of Italys cultural and politicaleconomic modernization. It focuses, above all, on novels by Italo Svevo, Federico De Roberto and Luigi Pirandello. The analysis centers on such topics as the struggle against adverse social conditions in a capitalist society; the risk of failing to survive the struggle itself; the adaptive issues of individuals uprooted from their family and work environments; and the concerns about the heritability of maladaptive characteristics. The book also argues that the hybridization and variation of both narrative forms and collective mindsets describes the modernist awareness of the cultural complexity experienced in Italy and Europe at this time. Andrea Sartori teaches Italian and European Culture at Politecnico of Milan, Italy, for the year 202223. He is the author of Scompenso (2010) and Linventalavoro (2012). He co-edited Perspectives on Italian Difference: Italian Differences in Perspective (2018) and Terry Pinkards La Fenomenologia di Hegel in Italian (2013). 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2022). 
505 0 0 |t Introduction: The Anxiety of Modernization --  |t Darwin's Traces --  |t Svevo: (A) life and writing --  |t De Roberto: power and transformism --  |t Pirandello: name and performance --  |t Conclusion. 
650 0 |a Italian fiction  |y 19th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Italian fiction  |y 20th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology) in literature. 
650 0 |a Natural selection in literature. 
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650 7 |a Italian fiction  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Natural selection in literature  |2 fast 
648 7 |a 1800-1999  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
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