Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel: No. 10

"In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing ''phenomena''. The success of the genre is closely related to a more general interest in revisiting the past in the light of a changed understanding of the nature, or philosophy, of history. This study aims to explore the particularly marked increase in the produc...