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| Author | : Katharine Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Italy |
| ISBN | : 9783034309967 |
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In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in the home. During the Risorgimento and the years following the Unification of Italy in 1861, economic, political and social changes enabled women to engage in pursuits that had previously been the exclusive domain of men. This book traces this shift in cultural perception.
| Author | : Katharine Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000457486 |
Download Gender, Writing, Spectatorships Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Katharine Mitchell |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442646411 |
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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 | : Katharine Mitchell |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2014-05-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442665645 |
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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 | : Helena Sanson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Conduct of life in literature |
| ISBN | : 9782406059189 |
Download Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy, 1470-1900 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Conduct literature for and about women represents a very broad but still little-studied body of works that is essential for the understanding of the cultural construction of femininity. Conduct texts, being both prescriptive and descriptive sources, offer a fascinating account of and insight into the changing role of women across the centuries according to the needs of society. On the one hand, they record ideological constructions, models, and aspirations, and on the other they reflect contemporary realities, norms, and customs. The essays in this volume aim to trace some of the main features of conduct literature in the Italian tradition, from the last decades of the fifteenth century to the post-unification period."--Page 4 of cover.
| Author | : Altina Hoti |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2019 |
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| ISBN | : |
Download Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Intellectuality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An investigation of gender, nationalism and cosmopolitanism discourses in nineteenth-century Italy through the works and reception of Romanian-born proto-feminist intellectual Dora D’Istria. This dissertation explores the cultural and political relationship between the figure of Dora D’Istria as a female cosmopolitan and the Italian Risorgimento. Particular attention is devoted to the tensions between nineteenth-century cosmopolitanism and nationalism, as well as the complex interrelations between nationalism and the questione femminile. Through the lens of Dora D’Istria’s publications and her reception among various intellectuals in post-unification Italy, this study explores the politicization of the women’s rights movement within the nationalist discourse. Women’s education and the production of traditional gender norms as a result of the national regeneration agenda are topics central to this work. The author analyses letters between D’Istria and Italian Risorgimento prominent figures such as Giuseppe Garibaldi as well as scholars such as Angelo De Gubernatis, Francesco Protonotari. Additionally, an essential role in this study is occupied by various monographs and essays by D’Istria herself such as La Suisse allemande et l'ascension du Moench (1856), Des femmes par une femme (1865), “The Educational Movement” in Theodore Stanton’s The Woman Questions in Europe (1884), as well as the reception of these works published in the form of essays and articles such as Gazzetta Ufficiale Del Regno D'Italia (Firenze, 1865) and Oscar Greco’s Bibliografia femminile italiana del XIX secolo (Venezia, 1875). Drawing from texts such as George L. Mosse’s Nationalism and Sexuality (1985), R. Radhakrishnan’s essay on colonial India, “Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity” (1992), Stewart-Steinberg’s The Pinocchio Effect. On Making Italians (1860-1920) (2007), and Esther Wohlgemut’s Romantic Cosmopolitanism (2009), the author discusses the power dynamics between the movement of women’s right and that of nationalism in nineteenth-century Italy
| Author | : Silvia Giovanardi Byer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2017-05-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1443892726 |
Download Representations of Female Identity in Italy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores a variety of iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. The contributors here apply various methodologies to characterize the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities, drawing from literature, film, drama, history, the humanities, media and cultural studies. Cross-genre, cross-cultural, and cross-national explorations are also utilised here in order to underline the multifaceted ways in which de facto female characterization occurred.
| Author | : Loredana Polezzi |
| Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780838641644 |
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Collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in contemporary Italian cultural production, and in the light of developments in thinking about bodies and their locations within cultures. This book includes essays that assume a plurality of conceptions of culture and of the body.
| Author | : Ursula Fanning |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1683930320 |
Download Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favor of an argument based on the cultural, linguistic, and literary marginalization of women writers within the Italian context. It is concerned with Italian women writers’ various ways of grappling with constructions of subjectivity throughout the century and sets out to explore them. Fanning reads autobiographical writing as subject to many of the same constraints as fiction and, in doing so, draws attention to the significance of the recurring use of the terms “pure” and “impure” in many critical and theoretical discussions of the autobiographical (where “pure” is used to suggest a truthful representation of a life, while “impure” suggests the messy undertaking of mixing lived experience with fiction). Recurring patterns and paradigms are found in the works of the various writers considered (eighteen in all), and these paradigms are analyzed through close readings of their works. These close readings offer insights into approaches to the constructions of subjectivity in the narratives and are informed by feminist theories. The chapters focus on selves in relationship, taking their lead from the patterns unfolding in the writers’ work, hence the subjects are constructed as daughters (with different views of the self in relation to fathers and mothers), within the confines of the romantic relationship (which involves reconsiderations and rewritings of the romance plot), as maternal subjects, and as writers (with an eye on their relationship to the literary canon, as well as to the relationship with readers). This book argues that there is such a thing as gendered subjectivity and that its constructions may be traced through the texts analyzed.
| Author | : Catherine Ramsey-Portolano |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2020-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 100019082X |
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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.
