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Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction The Historical Novel and the Dialectics of Genre 19 Chapter One Alessandro Manzoni's J'aeeuse: Literary Debates, the Essay Del romanzo storieo, and a Theory of Creative Historiography 20 The Background of Manzoni's Essay Del romanzo storieo 50 Manzoni's Essay Del romanzo storieo 55 Manzoni's Aesthetics 58 Manzoni and the Historical Imagination: Between Fiction and History 71 Chapter 1\vo Historical Reconfigurations and the Ideology of Desire: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo 72 Neorealism, Neo-avantgarde, and Il Gattopardo 87 Repetition and Desire as Modes of Narrative Emplotment 117 Chapter Three Fiction and Women's History: Elsa Morante's La Storia 119 Revising the Canon: La Storia, Feminist Historiography, and the Boundaries between History and Fiction 124 La Storia's Feminine Voice: The Narratriee and the Problem of the Subject 131 La Storia's Counterhistory and Its Ideological Significance 147 La Storia's Prophetic Thrust 153 Chapter Four Transhistorical Narratives: The Apocalypse and the Carnival in Umberto Eco's Il nome della rosa 154 Ideologies of Representation: The Return of the Plot 166 The Apocalypse as Structuring Narrative Principle Contents 179 Intertextuality and the Discourse of Carnival versus that of the Apocalypse 192 After the Fire: Apokalypsis with No Revelation 195 Conclusion 199 Appendix English Translations 215 Notes 247 Works Cited 261 Index viii ...

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