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050 4 _aKKH4060 -- .V645 2013eb
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100 1 _aVirga, Anita.
245 1 0 _aVoglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 :
_bSuicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNewcastle-upon-Tyne :
_bCambridge Scholars Publishing,
_c2013.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (302 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSuicide -- Italy.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aBernardini, Paolo L.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aVirga, Anita
_tVoglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919
_dNewcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,c2013
_z9781443844666
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1780297
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