LEADER 04123nam 2200709 450 001 9910459948903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2730-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442627307 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329317 035 $a(EBL)3296917 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12523411 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403931 035 $a(PQKB)10649497 035 $a(CEL)418937 035 $a(OCoLC)903421425 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00601113 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3296917 035 $a(DE-B1597)465520 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948032 035 $a(OCoLC)944178898 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442627307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670078 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256592 035 $a(OCoLC)958512377 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329317 100 $a20160914h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorld's fairs Italian style $ethe great exhibitions in Turin and their narratives, 1860-1915 /$fCristina Della Coletta 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (362 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a1-4875-2056-5 311 $a0-8020-9115-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Spectacle of Inventing a Nation: World's Fairs and Their Narratives in Italy, 1860-1915 -- $t1 Prologues to World's Fairs: National Expositions and Nation Building in Turin -- $t2 Turin 1911: The 'Fabulous Exposition' -- $t3 Emilio Salgari: Writing Exposition Style -- $t4 Guido Gozzano's Imperial Ambiguities -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAccording to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth.World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism.Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aExhibitions$zItaly$zTurin$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zItaly$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNationalism$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExhibitions$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 676 $a907.4/4512 700 $aDella Coletta$b Cristina$f1962-$0941941 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459948903321 996 $aWorld's fairs Italian style$92125343 997 $aUNINA