{"product_id":"italian-orientalism-nationhood-cosmopolitanism-and-the-cultural-politics-of-identity-paperback","title":"Italian Orientalism: Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Politics of Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePierpaolo Antonello\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert S. C. Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFabrizio De Donno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe on-going debate on the legacies of modern European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. \u003cem\u003eItalian Orientalism\u003c\/em\u003e is an interdisciplinary and transnational study both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods. The pan-European phenomenon is approached in its epistemological, aesthetic and political dimensions, while focusing on India and Indology as triggers of the so-called  Oriental Renaissance  and the Indo-European or Aryan idea. Fabrizio De Donno analyses the relationship between Orientalist scholarship and literary aesthetics in their related European and Italian contexts, mapping their interaction with linguistic, racial, religious and colonial thought. Paying particular attention to some of the major Italian intellectual, academic and literary figures of the time - from Giovanni Berchet, Giacomo Leopardi and Carlo Cattaneo, to Angelo De Gubernatis, Cesare Lombroso, Carlo Conti Rossini, Giosuè Carducci, Guido Gozzano and others - the book explores how Orientalism and Aryanism emerge as major if controversial discourses of modernity. They provide the rhetorical tools of identity politics which, it is argued, are central to notions of Italian nationhood, cosmopolitanism and Euromania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFabrizio De Donno\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 366\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51797450948896,"sku":"9781788740180","price":122.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4d3e2e12c7b0f6c22ea446d622b0cb7d.webp?v=1780781920","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/italian-orientalism-nationhood-cosmopolitanism-and-the-cultural-politics-of-identity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}