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I romanzi d’avventura di Emilio Salgari

Emilio Salgari (1862-1911) was Italy’s foremost writer of travel and adventure fiction, whose work displays the full gamut of adventurous and exotic archetypes, yet, in the Age of Imperialism, he espoused the cause of the colonized. While his heroes and heroines have always dazzled young readers, Salgari’s true protagonist, according to the author, is (Darwinian) Nature itself. This is the first in-depth critical study of Salgari’s work, seen comparatively within the international context.

Ann Lawson Lucas
Ann Lawson Lucas ha insegnato lingua e letteratura italiana nelle università di Southampton e Hull in Gran Bretagna. Fin dagli Anni Sessanta ha dato il via a ricerche innovative su Emilio Salgari (1862-1911) e sulla sua fortuna nella società di diverse epoche. È autrice di una monografia sui romanzi e curatrice di edizioni salgariane. Scrive su scrittori dell’Otto-Novecento, anche in studi comparatistici, e ha tradotto in inglese il capolavoro di Carlo Collodi. È Socia onoraria a vita della International Research Society for Children’s Literature e fondatrice del periodico «International Research in Children’s Literature».
Ann Lawson Lucas taught Italian language and literature at the Universities of Southampton and Hull in the UK. Her new volumes represent the culmination of her innovative research on the popular novelist, Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), and on the extraordinary phenomenon of his reception in differing political periods. She is the author of a monograph on Salgari’s novels and the editor of recent editions. Her work on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century writers includes comparative studies and an annotated translation of The Adventures of Pinocchio. She is a Fellow of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and negotiated the founding of the periodical International Research in Children’s Literature. - (luglio 2017) -

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