SOCIAL HISTORY OF CULTURE

Course Title: ROMANTICISM AND NATIONALISM: THE LONG 19th CENTURY (1800-1914)
The course was designed to meet the needs of the French track of the LLEAP master's program, but it approaches themes and topics with a methodology that is primarily historical and historical-cultural, which may be of particular interest and perhaps even useful for all students of literature in other tracks of the master's program.

Knowledge and understanding:
• knowledge of the methods of analysis of the specific areas of historiographical research in the languages of study in relation to the different types of sources (of political-institutional history, religious, social and culture, historical mentality, cultural systems, literary history, artistic and performative);
• long-term knowledge and framing of origins and dynamics of the development of the European social imaginary, from the ancien régime and the Age of Revolutions (cultures, religious, political, economic institutions) up to modern parliamentary democracies;
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• ability to articulate a coherent historical framework of the events that are at the origin of the processes of secularization of thought and of today's arrival in the modernity of the individual and of rights;
• ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, with the conscious use of the historiographical categories;
• ability to autonomously initiate investigations on specific cases related to the thesis topic

None, apart from those required by the LLEAP II degree course of studies

ROMANTICISM AND NATIONALISM: THE LONG 19th CENTURY (1800-1914)
Nell'Europa dell'Ottocento l'idea di Nazione, "comunità immaginaria", si radicò nelle coscienze di vaste masse essenzialmente attraverso la letteratura romantica, le arti visive, il melodramma, il teatro. Le grandi forme della comunicazione sociale contribuirono a forgiare una certa idea di Patria, un modello di appartenenza e di partecipazione, attraverso l'invenzione di un patrimonio collettivo (di eroi e di padri fondatori, una lingua e una storia comune, monumenti, tradizioni); la riattualizzazione in chiave patriottica di miti e di figure esemplari di un remoto passato.
Si tratta, in verità, del più classico tra i modelli esistenti di uso «politico» della storia.
Il corso intende analizzare i modi e le forme attraverso le quali, nel lungo Ottocento europeo e anche oltre, le letterature, il teatro, la musica e le arti visive contribuito a modellare le identità nazionali, ripercorrendo in tal modo primordi delle moderne culture politiche di massa.

1) lecture notes and 2) some readings that will be indicated at the beginning of the course

1. Amadieu, J-B., La littérature française du XIXe siècle à l’Index, in «RHLF», 104, 2 (2004), pp. 395-422
2. Gerhard, A., Reti aristocratiche e fervori risorgimentali nella biografia del giovane Verdi [NB: prima e seconda parte], in «AM», 84, 1-2 (2012), pp. 37-63 + pp. 199-223
3. Tocchini, G., Melodramma, storiografia, paleoturismo. Il mito della Venezia “tenebrosa”, in «VP», 3 (2018), pp. 29-88
4. Di Ricco, A., Padre Bresciani: Populismo e reazione, in «SS», 22, 4 (1981), pp. 833-860
5. Borutta, M., Rappresentazioni del cattolicesimo nell’anticlericalismo dell’Italia liberale, in «RSR, 58 (2001), pp. 117-136
6. Ridolfi, M., La cultura dei repubblicani italiani tra Otto e Novecento, in «SC », 175 (1989), pp. 25-52
7. Tocchini, G., Piano, con le parole…! Opera, politica, storia, in Opera. Il palcoscenico della società, Parma, 2021, pp. 35-58
8. Yates, W. E., Censorship, in Id., Theatre in Vienna. A Critical History, 1776-1995, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 25-48
9. Crossley, C., Augustin Thierry (1795-1856) and the project of national history, in Id., French historians and Ro-manticism, London and New York, 1993, pp. 45-70
10. Contamine, Ph., Le Moyen age romantique et libéral d'Augustin Thierry, «AIBL», 139, 4 (1995), pp. 969-981
11. Brown, R. H., The Formation of Delacroix's Hero, «TAB », 66, 2 (1984), pp. 237-254
12. De Van, G., Les sources littéraires de «Guillaume Tell» de Rossini, «ChI», 2 (1992), pp. 1-19
13. Lyons, M., Reading women, in Id., Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France, London, 2001, pp. 81-128
14. Lyons, M., Reading peasants, in Id., Readers and Society, cit., pp. 129-161
15. Price, R., Peasant and Politics, in Id., People and Politics in France 1848-1870, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 217-273
16. Nord, Ph., Manet and Radical Politics, «JIH», 19, 3 (1989), pp. 447-480
17. Marsan, J., Le théatre historique et le Romantisme (1818-1829), «RHLF», 17, 1 (1910), pp. 1-3
18. Glencross, M. J., La littérature française du Moyen-Age vu par les historiens de l'époque romantique, «RHLF », 93, 2 (1993), pp. 191-206
19. Davis, J. A., Opera and Absolutism in Restoration Italy, 1815-1860, «JIH », 36, 4 (2006), pp. 269-594
20. Tocchini, G., rec. a Carteggio Verdi-Piroli, a cura di Giuseppe Martini, Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2017, «VP», 4 (2021), pp. 185-197
21. Laforgue, P., Machinisme et industrialisme, ou romantisme (1840-1870), «RHLF», 103, 1 (2003), pp. 63-92
22. Schraut, S., Sissi: Popular Representation of an Empress, in Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centu-rie., New York, 2011, pp. 155-171
23. Weber, W., Culture and Reshaping of European Musical Taste. 1770-1870, «IRASM», 8, 1 (1977), pp. 5-22
24. Canfora, L., Sulla cultura italiana durante il fascismo; Cultura classica e fascismo; Orientamenti della ricerca, in Id., Ideologie del classicismo, Torino, 1980, pp. 57-132
25. Canfora, L., Cultura classica e nazismo, in Id., Ideologie del classicismo, cit., pp. 133-159
26. Watts, Walt Disney: Art and Politics in the American Century, «JAM », 82, 1 (1995), pp. 84-110


Please note: Students who, for any reason, are unable to attend class must come to office hours to agree on a program.

The oral exam, with an average duration of about 20 minutes, will focus on at least two topics covered during the lessons and aims at a cross-examination of the student's preparation and of his ability to show and coordinate the topics covered by the course. ability to link different topics.

During the oral examination the student must demonstrate:
a) to know how to articulate a coherent historical framework of events and debates that are at the origin of the birth and development of the idea of nation in Europe and in our "Risorgimento" up to the affirmation of nationalist thought;
b) ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the different historical, artistic, musical and literary sources examined, therefore
c) to be able to adequately comment on the complex of historical sources (visual, sound and written) analyzed in class,
d) to show a conscious use of the historiographical categories used during the lessons;
e) the ability to independently initiate in-depth studies and reflections on specific cases related to the topic of the course.

oral

The instructor is responsible for ensuring the authenticity and originality of all examinations and coursework. In cases of suspected academic misconduct, an additional on-site assessment may be required during the exams, which may differ from the standard format.

18-21 = Poor preparation and presentation skills, just barely sufficient
22-25 = Fair preparation; presentation skills lacking, but above passable
26 = Fair preparation; good presentation skills
27-28 = Good preparation; good or very good presentation skills
29 = Excellent preparation; good or very good presentation skills
30 = Outstanding preparation and depth of knowledge; excellent presentation skills
30L = Excellent preparation; excellent or outstanding presentation skills

15 frontal lessons, with iconology and multimedial

Students will be required to print and bring to class a hard copy of the text to be read during the lessons, downloadable in pdf from the Moodle section in this webpage [file: StSocialeCultura testi 2027.pdf]

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development