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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Note on translation
• Chronology
• Introducing modern Italian culture
• 1. The notion of Italy
• 2. Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day
• 3. Questions of language
• 4. Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy
• 5. Catholicism
• 6. Socialism, Communism and other ‘isms’
• 7. Other voices: contesting the status quo
• 8. Narratives of self and society
• 9. Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry*
• 10. Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage
• 11. Italian cinema
• 12. Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia
• 13. A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860
• 14. Fashion: narration and nation
• 15. The media
• 16. Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860–1995
• 17. Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s
• 18. Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium?
• Index