Overview
- Establishes the role of Charles Baudelaire in the formation of a poetics of modernity in Italy
- Represents the first book written in English to extensively study the poetry of the Scapigliatura
- Highlights Baudelaire’s and the Scapigliatura’s interrelated legacies to early 20th-century Italian poetry
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry, I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaire’s influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde. This monograph also investigates Baudelaire’s and the Scapigliatura’s interrelated impacts on early Futurist poetry, demonstrating that Futurist poets turned to the works of Baudelaire and the Scapigliatura for inspiration on themes that were considered as distinctly unpoetic – and therefore modern – such as medical-anatomical examination, technological transformation, and abnormal sensuality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alessandro Cabiati is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Brown University, USA, where he investigates the ways in which nineteenth-century literary fairy tales contributed to the cultural discourse on psychological deviance and abnormality, while also influencing medical debate. In recent years, he has undertaken research at King’s College London and at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity
Book Subtitle: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912
Authors: Alessandro Cabiati
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92018-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92017-3Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92020-3Published: 30 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92018-0Published: 24 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6478
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 285
Topics: European Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, History of Modern Europe