Authorship and Authority in the Classicist/Romantic Quarrel. (8th June 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Camilletti, Fabio
• Is Part Of: Forum for modern language studies. Volume 54:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 307
• Page End: 319
• Publication Date: 2018-06-08
• Subjects: Classicism -- Romanticism -- Bourbon Restoration -- Italianness -- Risorgimento; Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Philology, Modern -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 800.05
• DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqy020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0015-8518

Abstract

Abstract: The Classicist/Romantic quarrel enflaming Italy from 1816 to circa 1830 is not only a confrontation between two literary schools, but also a conflict between two models of authorship, which, in turn, embody two different modalities of authority. By arguing that the Classicist/Romantic quarrel can be read as Italy's post-revolutionary Bildungsroman, fulfilling the function played in France by Stendhal's novels or by Biedermeier literature in Germany, this essay shows how it leaves as a legacy, to the Italian long nineteenth century, a paradoxical coexistence of normativity and unruliness, antiquity and modernity, autarchic drives and openings to foreign culture.