Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century: European and Transatlantic Perspectives
About this ebook
As for the choice to focus on the nineteenth century, this is dictated by the fact that, in those decades, for the first time in history, scientific, technological, and social developments accelerated simultaneously. It is, therefore, important to see how such new knowledge was circulated among an ever-growing audience by means of different genres and text types, bearing in mind that divisions between the literary and non-literary were hardly as sharp as they are today.
The book presents contributions by Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Nicholas Brownlees, Bruno Cartosio, Sonia Di Loreto, Aileen Dillane, Marina Dossena, Kirsten Lawson, Angela Locatelli, William H. Mulligan, Jr., Stefano Rosso, and Polina Shvanyukova.
About the author
Stefano Rosso is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy, having taught at the University of Verona, Italy, and Binghamton University, USA, where he also studied on a Fulbright scholarship. He is co-editor of Ácoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani, directs the critical series “americane”, and has published in journals such as Critical Inquiry, boundary 2 and alfabeta. He is the author of Musi gialli e berretti verdi. Narrativa USA e Guerra del Vietnam (2003) and Rapsodie della Frontiera. Sulla narrativa western contemporanea (2012), and the editor of six volumes including Le frontiere del Far West (2008), L’invenzione del west(ern) (2010), and Come Gather ‘Round Friends (2013). He is currently serving on the Executive Council of the Western Literature Association (2015-17).
