The unpopular realism of Vincenzo Padula : Il Bruzio and Mariuzza Sbrìffiti /

The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula, a Calabrian intellectual committed to the plight of his Region, provides a microhistory of life in a southern Italian province in the decade following Unification by giving voice to the working classes and women through representation of a diverse reality ig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Francese, Joseph (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Teaneck, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2022].
Series:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects:	Padula, Vincenzo, > 1819-1893 > Criticism and interpretation. Sbrìffiti, Mariuzza > (Fictitious character) Bruzio (Cosenza, Italy : 1864-1865) Italy > In literature. Politics in literature. Women in literature. Working class in literature.

Table of Contents:

His life
Padula's 'obscurity'
Padula demopsicologo
De Sanctis and Croce
Padula's (un)popular realism
Il Bruzio
Lo stato delle persone in Calabria
Women correspond with "Il Bruzio"
Mariuzza Bis
Prelude and end of Il Bruzio.