A. Lang

Converting a Nation

A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

Produktdetails

• Studies in European Culture and History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-37407-6
• 1st ed. 2008
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781349374076
• ISBN-10: 1349374075
• Artikelnr.: 45075215

Autorenporträt

ARIELLA LANG is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: TRIALS Reading Between the Lines: Inquisition Texts and Catholic Conquests Re-writing the Jew in Restoration Italy: The Stories of Salvatore Tivoli and Samuelle Cavalieri PART II: NOVELS Proselytization as Nationalist Project: Alessandro Manzoni the Convert(er) Conversion and National Identity: A Reading of Bresciani's L'Ebreo di Verona PART III: THE CATHOLIC PRESS Private Letters, Public Stories: From the De Joux Conversion(s) to the Mortara Affair