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SUMMARY:Children’s Literature at the Crossroads of Genre\, Nation and Em
 pire: Alice\, Pinocchio\, and adventure stories - Laura Tosi is Full Profe
 ssor of English Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. 
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:National associations and mutual stereotyping have paved the w
 ay to the reception of the Alice and Pinocchio books\; in this talk I shal
 l compare the national and historical contexts in which Carroll and Collod
 i operated\, their personal backgrounds and their attitudes to literacy an
 d education – a contrastive analysis of these texts\, characterized by t
 he same generic hybridity\, affords new insights into the respective cultu
 res that produced them and about the books themselves. In the second part 
 of the talk I will contrast the characteristics and ideology of the advent
 ure story genre in Italy and Britain in the last decades of the nineteenth
  century\, a period in which both countries were thinking of themselves as
  nations in relation to the exotic spaces of the Empire. From Alice and Pi
 nocchio\, and their points of departure\, Oxford and Florence\, the journe
 y of compared children’s literature will take the audience to the coloni
 al outposts where Italians and the British were defining their national id
 entity in their relationship with different populations and foreign spaces
 / languages. \n\nLaura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the
  University Ca’ Foscari in Venice.  Her primary research fields are Eliz
 abethan and Jacobean drama\, and children’s literature.\n\n
LOCATION:MAB 104\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, C
 ambridge CB2 8PQ
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