By Maria Truglio
This ebook bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian experiences through studying how turn-of-the-century children’s books cast a unified nationwide identification for the recent Italian kingdom. via contextualized shut readings of a variety of texts, Truglio indicates how the 19th-century inspiration of recapitulation, which held that ontogeny (the individual’s improvement) repeats phylogeny (the evolution of the species), underlies the innovations of this corpus. Italian fairy stories, novels, poems, and brief tales indicate that the non-public improvement of the kid corresponds to and for this reason naturalizes the modernizing improvement of the kingdom. within the context of Italy’s asymmetric and ambivalent modernization, those narrative trajectories are enabled through a developmental melancholia. utilizing a psychoanalytic lens, and in discussion with contemporary Anglophone Children’s Literature feedback, this research proposes that nationwide identification used to be built through a technique of renouncing and incorporating paternal and maternal figures, rendered as obligatory steps into adulthood and modernity. With chapters at the heroic determine of Garibaldi, the Orientalized depiction of the South, and the position of ladies in formation narratives, this publication discloses how melancholic itineraries produced gendered nationwide matters. This learn engages either famous Italian texts, corresponding to Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and De Amicis’ Heart, and books that experience fallen into obscurity by means of authors resembling Baccini, Treves, Gianelli, and Nuccio. Its procedure and corpus make clear questions being tested via Italianists, Children’s Literature students, and social and cultural historians with an curiosity in nationwide id formation.
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