Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: A Festschrift for John Woodhouse

Biography and autobiography are flourishing in Britain and the anglophone world generally, where most of these literature scholars work, but not so in Italy. They explore the few examples during the 20th century, along with trends and theoretical aspects. Among the topics are the public and the private in modern Italian literature, Enrico Nencioni as an Italian Victorian, Italian war-correspondents and the Spanish Civil War, and Umberto Eco spinning autobiography into romance. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)