Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Emotions, Politics, Entertainment—A Nineteenth-Century Transnational Plot
	Emotionality During the Risorgimento
	Politics, Spectacle and Entertainment in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
	The Public Sphere During the Risorgimento: New Historical Readings
	Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Emotions for Everyone: New Entertainment Spaces in Europe
	Two Beginnings
	Paris, Boulevard du Temple
	London, the South and the East End
	From Market to Politics and Back
	Republican Milan and the Idea of the Citizen-Spectator
Chapter 3: A Theatrical Genre for Post-Revolutionary Society
	Looking for the Language of Emotions
	The Mélodrame as Easily Accessible Entertainment
	The Industry of the Melodrama
	Between England and Italy: In the Footsteps of a Transnational Product
Chapter 4: Between Mélodrame and Melodramatic Imagination
	Who Is Afraid of the Melodrama? The Mélo as “mover of the heart”
	Melodramatic Style and Political Conflict in the Early Nineteenth Century
	National Narratives
Chapter 5: Melodrama Italian-Style: In Search of an Audience Between Fiction and Politics
	New Narratives of the Past Between Rossini and Walter Scott
	Foscolo, Mazzini and an Audience for Politics
	Towards an “Industrial Literature”?
	Melodrama Italian-Style
Chapter 6: The Melodramatic Narration of Oppressed Italy
	Truth and Fiction
	The Narrative Device
	Oppression and Redemption
	From the Past to the Present: The Three Years Between 1846–1849
	The History of Italy Told to the People
	A Few Figures and a Little About Trade
	Violence, Deceptions, Sieges: Sentimentalising Politics
	The Vocabulary of Emotivity Between Colloquialisms and Archaisms
	A mélo About 1848
Chapter 7: Not Just Words: Emotional Bodies in the “Long 1848”
	A Theatrical Revolution
	Dramatising the Past
	The Role of Communicators
	The Physiognomy of Patriotism
	Clothes, Beards and Feathered Hats
	Fashion Italian-Style
	Patriots, Knights, Brigands and Robbers
	An Interpretation: Between Performativity and Surveillance
Chapter 8: Politics and the Language of Sentiment
	After the Emotional Storm
	European Indignation
	A Melodramatic Risorgimento: From Museums to Early Cinema
	To Conclude
A Brief Chronology of the Italian Risorgimento
Bibliography
	Periodical Sources
	Printed Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index