Ilaria Natali
@ilarianatali.bsky.social
Professor, English Lit. 18th-20th centuries- Modern manuscripts | Collaborative writing | Literature & medicine | Gender | Intertextuality - Director of LEA - President of the Programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures
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In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
Reposted by Ilaria Natali
My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
lsupress.org/978080717851...
lsupress.org/978080717851...
Fascination
Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technologica...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
lsupress.org/978080717851...
lsupress.org/978080717851...