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04176aam a2200409 i 4500 001 72A349FCDDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 220922s2022 sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3031188497 020 $a 9783031188497 035 $a (OCoLC)1346937875 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ4173 $b .S27 2022 082 04 $a 853/.8094509034 $2 23 100 1 $a Sartori, Andrea, $e author. 245 14 $a The struggle for life and the modern Italian novel, 1859-1925 / $c Andrea Sartori. 264 1 $a Cham : $b Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 271 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Italian and Italian American studies 520 $a This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy's 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). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a 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 505 8 $a 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 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Italian fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Italian fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) in literature. 650 0 $a Natural selection in literature. 650 7 $a Evolution (Biology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917331 650 7 $a Italian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00980468 650 7 $a Natural selection in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921262 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Italian and Italian American studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=72A349FCDDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search