Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: The Legacy of the Poeta Vate
6. 1. Justice, Modesty, and Compassion in Ugo Foscolo’s Ajace 37
7. 2. Paradoxical Romanticism: Alessandro Manzoni’s Il Cinque maggio 59
8. 3. Pascolian Intertexts in the Lyric Poetry of Attilio Bertolucci 81
9. 4. The Ethics and Pathos of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s ‘Ragioni d’una poesia’ 97
10. 5. Diego Valeri: A Classic Poet in the Modern Era 112
11. PART TWO: Roads to Rome: The Feminine Voice
12. 6. The Typological Journey of Grazia Deledda’s Canne al vento 131
13. 7. Iconicity and Social Thought in Elsa Morante’s ‘Lo scialle andaluso’ 146
14. 8. Of the Barony: Anna Banti and the Time of Decision 162
15. 9. The Religious Experimentalism of Amelia Rosselli 181
16. PART THREE: Peripheral Novelists and the Problem of Evil
17. 10. From Z to A: Italo Svevo’s Corto viaggio sentimentale 197
18. 11. The Pains of the Prophet: Guido Morselli and the Problem of Evil 218
19. 12. Vasco Pratolini’s Il quartiere as a Calque of Purgatorio 253
20. Conclusion 276
21. Notes 289
22. Bibliography 337
23. Index 351