The struggle for life and the modern Italian novel, 1859-1925 / Andrea Sartori.
Sartori, Andrea, author.
2022
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Title
The struggle for life and the modern Italian novel, 1859-1925 / Andrea Sartori.
Author
Sartori, Andrea, author.
ISBN
9783031188503 (electronic bk.)
3031188500 (electronic bk.)
9783031188497
3031188497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18850-3
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 271 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-18850-3 doi
Call Number
PQ4173
Dewey Decimal Classification
853.80936
Summary
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).
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2022).
Series
Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Praise for The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Anxiety of Modernization
Chapter 2: Darwin's Traces
1 Struggle for Life: The Origin of a Metaphor
2 Derrida and Darwin
3 Darwin Contended: A Literary Perspective
4 In Italy: Fogazzaro, D'Annunzio, Verga, Pascoli
Chapter 3: Svevo: (A) Life and Writing
1 December, 1902
2 Adaptive Demands
3 A Solitary Performance
4 The Struggle for Life and Woman
5 An Emotional Void
6 An Indelible Trace: Images of Deprivation

7 Delirium and Writing
Chapter 4: De Roberto: Power and Transformism
1 Zola: The Features of a Dream
2 De Roberto: Writing about Negativity
3 De Roberto: The Viceroys
3.1 A Fading Inheritance
3.2 Suggestion: From Family to Politics
3.3 Final Curtain: The Unpredictable
Chapter 5: Pirandello: Name and Performance
1 Copernicus and Darwin
2 The Late Mattia Pascal: Is There Any Logic?
3 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand: Getting Under the Skin
4 Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Tale of Shame
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Works Cited
Author Index

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