The Printed Media in Fin-de-Siecle Italy: Publishers,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Caesar, Ann Hallimore / Romani, Gabrielle / Burns, Jennifer, PUBLISHER: Legenda, The Unification of Italy in heralded a period of unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures ong>andong> took Italy into World War One on the Allied side, on the domestic front technological advance, the creation of a national transport network, the expansion of state education, internal migration to cities ong>andong> the rise of political associations all contributed to the rapid expansion of the print industry ong>andong> the development of new ong>andong> highly diversified reading publics. Drawing on publishers' archives, letters, diaries, ong>andong> printed material, this book provide the most up-to-date research into the printed media - books, magazines ong>andong> journals - in Italy between ong>andong> . With essays on publishers ong>andong> reading communities, the professionalization of the role of journalist ong>andong> writer, children's literature, book illustrations, ong>andong> printed media in colonial territories among others, this book is intended for those with interests in cultural production ong>andong> consumption ong>andong> questions of nation-formation ong>andong> nationhood in ong>andong> outside Italy.