Overview
This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914. As such, it is the first scholarly investigation of the genesis both of contemporary espionage and of the cultural imagination associated with it. Spies in European Culture, 1815-1914 sheds light on the founding moment of espionage and the use of secrecy in politics in the contemporary age. It successfully argues that the 19th century saw the development of a cultural-historical process in which disruptive novelties like the disguise, the secret and the double identity simultaneously assailed the spheres of the state, the self and the imaginary, ushering in distinctive features of society in the modern era in the process. This global phenomenon, in which state and society, but also reality and fiction, were profoundly intertwined, is therefore investigated by means of a transdisciplinary analysis that considers both the politico-institutional and the cultural planes that existed at the time.
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Author: Dr Laura Di Fiore (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) , Dr Elisabetta Abignente (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9781350427297
ISBN 10: 1350427292
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 20 February 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1. ‘The Circuit of the Secret’ between Reality and Fiction Laura Di Fiore and Elisabetta Abignente (both University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 2. Political Spies in Nineteenth-Century Europe: An Overview Robert Justin Goldstein (Oakland University, USA) Part 1 – Transnational Networks 3. Spies, Secret Agents and Confidants: An Underground History of the Carlist Wars Alexandre Dupont (University of Strasbourg, France) 4. Microhistory and the Practices of Espionage in 19th-Century Europe Christos Aliprantis (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany) 5. The Dreyfus Affair and the Genesis of the British Spy Story, 1894 - 1900 Alessandra Crotti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Part 2 – Secrets, Power and Geopolitics at Europe’s Borders 6. Conspiracy and ‘Public Feelings’: Police, Secrets and Espionage in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1820s Carolina Castellano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 7. ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ and the Geopolitical Imagination Riccardo Capoferro (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 8. Stories of Italian Spies and Special Agents in Late 19th-century Egypt: The Intelligence Service in Colonial Territory Costantino Paonessa (UCLouvain, Belgium) Part 3 – Double Identities, Dissimulation and Disguise 9. The Mouchard between Panoramic Literature and Caricature Michela Lo Feudo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 10. Fake Names, Multiple Nationalities: Secret Agents crossing the 19th-Century Mediterranean Laura Di Fiore (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 11. Double Identity and Seriality: Spy Tales before the Spy Novel Elisabetta Abignente (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Index
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Elisabetta Abignente is Researcher in Comparative Literatures at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is the author of three books and one edited volume in Italian. Laura Di Fiore is Associate Professor in History of Political Institutions at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is author of three books in Italian, including Gli Invisibili. Polizia politica e agenti segreti nell’Ottocento borbonico (2018).
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