Acknowledgments Note on texts 1. The modern novelist as redeemer of the nation 2. The crisis of liberal nationalism 3. 'His sympathies were in the right place': Conrad and the discourse of national character 4. Citizens of the Plain: Proust and the discourse of national will 5. 'Il vate nazionale': D'Annunzio and the discourse of embodiment Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index.
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