Nineteenth Century Italian Women Writers And The Woman Question

Author : Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000190823

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Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano Pdf

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy. This study proposes to bring Neera out of the shadows of literary marginality to which she has long been confined by analyzing her contribution to literary and cultural debates as testimony to the pivotal role she played in the creation of a female literary voice within the Italian fin-de-siècle context. Drawing from the Anglo-American feminist critical tradition; modern Italian feminist theory on the maternal order and sexual difference; and a close reading of Neera’s literary, theoretical and epistolary writings this volume examines Neera’s work from a three-pronged perspective: as promoter of a maternal order in contrast to the existent paternal order, as one of few women writers to participate actively in Italy’s verismo movement and as epistolary correspondent of leading representatives within fin-de-siècle Italian literary and journalistic circles. Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question represents the first monographic volume in English dedicated exclusively to this important Italian woman writer, repositioning her within the Italian literary landscape and canon.

Author : Katharine Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442665644

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Italian Women Writers by Katharine Mitchell Pdf

Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and urban areas, there emerged a generation of women writers whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership. This study looks at the work of three of the most significant women writers of the period: La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, and Matilde Serao. These writers, whose works had been largely forgotten for much of the last century, only to be rediscovered by the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s, were widely read and received considerable critical acclaim in their day. In their realist fiction and journalism, these professional women writers documented and brought to light the ways in which women participated in everyday life in the newly independent Italy, and how their experiences differed profoundly from those of men. Katharine Mitchell shows how these three authors, while hardly radical emancipationists, offered late-nineteenth-century readers an implicit feminist intervention and a legitimate means of approaching and engaging with the burning social and political issues of the day regarding “the woman question” – women’s access to education and the professions, legal rights, and suffrage. Through close examinations of these authors and a selection of their works – and with reference to their broader artistic, socio-historical, and geo-political contexts – Mitchell not only draws attention to their authentic representations of contemporary social and historical realities, but also considers their important role as a cultural medium and catalyst for social change.

Author : Lucienne Kroha
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015025255269

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The Woman Writer in Late-nineteenth-century Italy by Lucienne Kroha Pdf

The essays in this collection examine the processes underlying the formation of literary identity in four of the most important and widely-read Italian women novelists of the late-19th century, all of whom were in varying degrees involved in the ongoing debate on the changing role of women in Italian society at that time: Neera, Matilde Serao, the Marchesa Colombi, and Sibilla Aleramo.

Author : Katharine Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000457483

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Gender, Writing, Spectatorships by Katharine Mitchell Pdf

This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and in its consideration of female relationships based on admiration among performers and writers – the embodiment of a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.

Author : Brian Zuccala,Samuele Grassi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788855185974

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Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons by Brian Zuccala,Samuele Grassi Pdf

The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).

Author : Antonia Arslan,Gabriella Romani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802038104

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Writing to Delight by Antonia Arslan,Gabriella Romani Pdf

Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities.

Author : Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521578132

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A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.

Author : Alison Chapman,Jane Stabler
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 071906130X

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Unfolding the South by Alison Chapman,Jane Stabler Pdf

A radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.

Author : Sharon Hecker,Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031148163

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Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy by Sharon Hecker,Catherine Ramsey-Portolano Pdf

This book is the first critical interdisciplinary examination in English of Italian women’s contributions to intellectual, artistic, and cultural production in modern Italy. Examining commonalities and diversities from the country’s Unification to today, the volume provides insight into the challenges that Italian women engaged in cultural production have faced, and the strategies they have deployed in order to achieve their objectives. The essays address a range of issues, from women’s self-identification and public ownership of their professional roles as laborers in the intellectual and cultural realm, to questions about motherhood and financial remuneration, to the role of creative foreign women in Italy. Through critical analysis and direct testimony from new and typically marginalized voices, including an Arab-Italian writer, an Italian-Dominican filmmaker, and a transgender activist, new forms of ongoing struggle emerge that redefine the culturally diverse landscape of female intellectual and creative production in Italy today. The volume rethinks a solely national “Made in Italy” reading of the subject of female intellectual labor, demonstrating instead the wide network of influences and relationships that have existed for Italian women in their professional aspirations.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004527454

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Women Writing Intimate Spaces by Anonim Pdf

The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications with a narrower scope, such as Western Europe or specific regions. More broadly, the chapters in this volume offer a variety of approaches to intimacy and generous bibliographical references for researchers in humanities and cultural studies.

Author : Katharine Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442646414

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Italian Women Writers by Katharine Mitchell Pdf

Italian Women Writers looks at the work of three of the most significant women in late nineteenth century Italy whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership.

Author : Maria Marotti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041254

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Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present by Maria Marotti Pdf

Author : Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110284

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'Our Own Fair Italy' by Kathryn Walchester Pdf

This study proposes that in their writing about the region, women travel writers made a significant contribution to the changing representation of Italy and to their own changing reputation as professional writers. Between 1800 and 1844 there was a significant shift in the way in which Italy was both perceived and discussed as the tradition of the 'Grand Tour' waned and new types of travellers made trips to Europe. Encouraged by changes in the cost, ease and motivations for travel, unprecedented numbers of women travelled to Italy and published their accounts. Focussing on the pivotal works of five women writers - Mariana Starke, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Eaton, Anna Jameson and Lady Morgan - this book assesses the developments made by these women to a number of genres of travel writing and to the political and aesthetic representation of Italy.

Author : A. Belzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230113619

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Women and the Great War by A. Belzer Pdf

Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them as guardians of the nation.