Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-415) and index.
Contents:
The Pinocchio effect : on autonomy and influence -- The secret power of suggestion : Scipio Sighele's succubal subject -- The queen and the deputy : the representative politics of Matilde de Serao's La conquista di Roma -- Love's gravity : the preverse gymnastics of Edmondo De Amicis -- An unwritable law of maternal love : the infanticide debate -- In a dark continent : Cesare Lombroso's other Italy -- Social Maria : the scientific feminism of Maria Montessori -- Maria Montessori : the writing subject.
Summary:
'The Pinocchio Effect' draws on a broad array of sources to trace the making of a modern national identity in Italy. The author explores all the ways that identity was constructed through newly formed attachments, voluntary and otherwise, to the nation.
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