Contributions

  • Nicoletta Pireddu (Introduction) - Contributor
  • David Jacobson (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2008-01-06 - University of Toronto Press

Language

English

Word Count

132,000 words, Guess

Page Count

528 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100802092896
  • ISBN-139780802092892
  • Goodreads1927940
  • LibraryThing9161385
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008378704
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number154746543
  • Better World Books9780802092892
  • Better World BooksW8-BXI-436
  • Open LibraryOL11208365M

Classifications

  • LCCHQ21 .M43 2007
  • LCCGN308.3.I8
  • LCCGN308.3.I8 M36 2007

Description

"Noted physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, and politician Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was probably the most eclectic cultural figure in late nineteenth-century Italy. This volume is a representative overview of Mantegazza's key works, many of them translated into English for the first time. In addition to the unabridged Physiology ofLove (1873), a best-seller at the time of its initial publication, this compilation features selections from Mantegazza's writings on medicine and travel, his epistolary novel One Day in Madeira (1868), and his treatise on materialist aesthetics. This volume also includes a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu and excerpts from Mantegazza's science fiction, memoirs, and social and cultural criticism." "In addition to providing an anthology of Mantegazza's works, this volume presents a view of the circulation of ideas and cross-fertilization of disciplines that characterized an important period in Italian and European cultural life."--BOOK JACKET.

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