@article{1451461,
      author = {Sartori, Andrea,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451461},
      title = {The struggle for life and the modern Italian novel,  1859-1925 /},
      abstract = {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).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18850-3},
      recid = {1451461},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 271 pages).},
}