Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Between Darwinian Origins and Modernist Ends: Svevo’s Allegory of Symbiosis 15
7. 2. Of Artists, Women, and Jews: Svevo and the Modernist Contamination 46
8. 3. Between Darwinism and Dreams: The Stories of Alfonso and Annetta in Una Vita 73
9. 4. The Crying of the Statues: Art and Women in Senilità 102
10. 5. Leading the Pedagogue by the Hand 127
11. 6. Out of the Shadow of the Mammoth: Zeno and the Story of the Other 161
12. Conclusion 204
13. Notes 207
14. Bibliography 223
15. Index 233