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I TA L I A N S T U D I E S Italian Cultural Lineages Jonathan White TORONTO ITALIAN STUDIES In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity By tracing Italian life and art through several themes – viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles – White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twentyfirst century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring – pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike. Jonathan White is Reader in Literature at the University of Essex. World’s Fairs Italian-Style The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860–1915 Cristina Della Coletta TORONTO ITALIAN STUDIES According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world’s fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth. World’s Fairs Italian-Style explores world’s fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination – an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two bestselling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age’s ‘exposition mentality.’ Salgari and Gozzano’s exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy’s uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism. Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World’s Fairs Italian- Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy’s national identity. Cristina Della Coletta is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. Approx. 336pp / 6 x 9 / January 2007 24 Photographs Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9230-6 / 978-0-8020-9230-4 £48.00 $75.00 E Paper ISBN 0-8020-9458-9 / 978-0-8020-9458-2 £22.50 $35.00 C Approx. 400 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 20 illustrations Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9115-6 / 978-08020-9115-4 £45.00 $70.00 E 28
B O O K H I S T O R Y Culinary Landmarks A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825–1949 Edited by Elizabeth Driver STUDIES IN BOOK AND PRINT CULTURE territory of publication, revealing cooking and dining customs in each part of the country over 125 years. Full bibliographical descriptions of first and subsequent editions are augmented by author biographies and corporate histories of the food producers and kitchen-equipment manufacturers, who often published the books. Driver’s excellent general introduction sets out the evolution of the cookbook genre in Canada, while brief introductions for each province identify regional differences in developments and trends. Four indexes and a ‘Chronology of Canadian Cookbook History’ provide other points of access to the wealth of material in this impressive reference book. Elizabeth Driver is an independent scholar living in Toronto and president of the Culinary Historians of Ontario. Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers’ bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women’s groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or Of related interest: Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well Pellegrino Artusi Translated by Murtha Baca and Stephen Sartarelli. 0-8020-8657-8 / 978-0-8020-8657-0 £18.99 / $40.00 / 2003 Approx. 1008 pp / 8 ½ x 11 / January 2007 18 colour and 31 black and white illustrations Cloth ISBN 0-8020-4790-4 / 978-0-8020-4790-8 £112.00 $175.00 E Front cover of Dainty and Delicious Dishes, Toronto: Cowan Co. Ltd, nd [1915] (0336.1). 29
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