“Italy in the Second Half of the 19th-century: Bridging New Cultures”,

This book offers a variety of critical perspectives from national and international scholars and their contributions provide a multifaced reflection on this vibrant and creative period of the nineteenth century in Italy. These reflections represent new scholarship and research, which will prove to be an invaluable resource for an academic audience and student population interested in Italian Studies, as well as an excellent text for other interdisciplinary studies. Within these pages, lesser-known writers are introduced alongside more renowned authors, such as Giovanni Verga, Carlo Collodi and Ippolito Nievo, contributing to highlight the many and different facets of the period in which the interaction of literature, the arts and culture, become vital forces for great changes in the literary, political, and cultural Italian landscape of the Risorgimento.