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Converting a Nation

A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Studies in European Culture and History (SECH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 1-8
  3. Trials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Reading Between the Lines

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 11-30
    3. Rewriting the Jew in Restoration Italy

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 31-72
  4. Novels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Proselytization as a Nationalist Project

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 75-103
    3. Conversion and National Identity

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 105-135
  5. The Catholic Press

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Private Letters, Public Stories

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 139-176
    3. Conclusion

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 177-180
    4. Epilogue

      • Ariella Lang
      Pages 181-186
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 187-237

About this book

Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

About the author

ARIELLA LANG is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, USA.

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