Main entry:

Della Coletta, Cristina, 1962-

Title & Author:

World's fairs Italian style : the great exhibitions in Turin and their narratives, 1860-1915 / Cristina Della Coletta.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.

Description:

x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.
Introduction : the spectacle of inventing a nation : world's fairs and their narratives in Italy, 1860-1915 -- 1. Prologues to world's fairs : national expositions and nation building in Turin -- Turin, (former) capital of the nineteenth century -- National exhibits, collective identity, and the ideology of progress -- Dreaming a collective dream : civilization as leisure -- Of maps and towers : a stroll along the fairgrounds -- Pro Aris el Foci : the king, the people, and the nation -- All the city's a stage : the exposition of hegemonic topographies in De Amicis's Torino 1880 -- Exhibition mania on stage : the ballet Excelsior -- 2. Turin 1911 : the 'fabulous exposition' -- Ephemeral architecture and the invention of a national style -- Building imperial consensus : Italy's Quarta Sponda on the Po River -- Italy and the imperial paradigm -- Blazoned pilots, modern media, and vicarious travels -- Polar explorers, 'instant books, ' and the politics of travel -- 3. Emilio Salgari : writing exposition style -- Salgari's novels as exposition narratives -- Salgari and the adventure-tale formula -- life exposed : the man, the myth, and the nation -- fall of a crystal palace : Le meraviglie del Duemila -- 4. Guido Gozzano's imperial ambiguities -- Reclaiming the context : on Gozzano gazzettiere and the archaeology of Verso la cuna del mondo -- 'compendium of the world' : Gozzano's India as world's fair exhibit -- Of mazes and masks : India as counter-exposition -- Beyond the exotic surface : Gozzano's Letters as hermeneutical objects -- Historiography as assemblage : intertextual montages in 'L'Olocausto di Cawnepore' and 'Goa : "La Dourada"' -- Meddling with the sex of angles : Gozzano's readings of Albrecht Durer's Melancholia I -- Production for profit and creation for pleasure : beauty, truth, and the role of the artist in the world of universal expositions.

Summary:

According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth. This book explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. The author demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within.

Resources:
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Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0802091156
9780802091154
9781487520564
1487520565

Subject:

Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911 Criticism and interpretation.
Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916 Criticism and interpretation.
Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911 Critique et interprétation.
Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916 Critique et interprétation.
Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916.
Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911.
Esposizione internazionale di Torino (1911)
Exposition universelle (1911 : Turin, Italie)
Esposizione internazionale di Torino.
Exhibitions Italy Turin History 20th century.
Nationalism Italy History 19th century.
Nationalism Italy History 20th century.
Exhibitions Italy Turin History 19th century.
Expositions internationales Italie Turin Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalisme Italie Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalisme Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Littérature et société Italie Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature et société Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Exhibitions.
Nationalism.
Ausstellung
Italy.
Italy Turin.
Turin

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Geschichte 1860-1915.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Toronto Italian studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249634
Call No.: BIB 179219
Status: Available