Introduction
Judith Davies
From The Realism of Luigi Capuana: Theory and Practice in the Development of Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Realism (1979), pp. 1-9, doi:10.59860/td.c6975ee
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| Part of the book: The Realism of Luigi Capuana Judith Davies MHRA Texts and Dissertations 13 Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Luigi Capuana was born in 1839, and his birth-place was Mineo, a small town, still not easily accessible, in the province of Catania. It may seem unlikely that a figure truly representative of Italian culture in the second half of the last century should have sprung from such remote and rural origins. Yet Capuana probably has a better claim to that status than any of his contemporaries; and his Sicilian birth, paradoxically, by no means impeded his rise to this eminence. Note cues in this introduction refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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