TY  - BOOK
AU  - Virga,Anita
AU  - Bernardini,Paolo L.
TI  - Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919: Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919
SN  - 9781443866705
AV  - KKH4060 -- .V645 2013eb 
U1  - 344.450419 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Suicide -- Italy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON THE COVER IMAGE -- INTRODUCTION - A CULTURE OF DEATH -- CHAPTER ONE - THE "CIVIL SUICIDE" OF FRANCESCO LOMONACO -- CHAPTER TWO - THE LIFE AND TRAGIC EPILOGUE OF PATRIOT FRANCESCO BENEDETI -- CHAPTER THREE - THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE IN GIACOMO LEOPARDI -- CHAPTER FOUR - SUICIDI DI PRIMO OTTOCENTO -- CHAPTER FIVE - EMILIO PRAGA'S SUICIDIO -- CHAPTER SIX - LA TEMATICA DEL SUICIDIO NELLA SCAPIGLIATURA. -- CHAPTER SEVEN - REPRESENTATIONS OF SUICIDE IN ITALIAN NARRATIVES FROM THE 1860S TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CHAPTER EIGHT - IN PLAIN SIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE - "THEN I SHALL SLEEP." -- CHAPTER TEN - EGOISTIC AND ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE WRITINGS OF F.T. MARINETTI PRE- AND POST-FUTURISM -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - MICHELSTAEDTER THE POET THROUGH MONTALE -- CHAPTER TWELVE - HARAKIRI ALL'ITALIANA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ANTONIA POZZI -- CONTRIBUTORS
N2  - The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea
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