A History of Women's Writing in Italy
A History of Women's Writing in Italy
$143.00
USDThis volume offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to light other forms of expression such as letter writing, religious and devotional writing, travel writing, and journalism. Contributors point to the considerable practical, social and ideological difficulties faced by women in writing and presenting their work to a wider reading public, but also highlight the determination of women through the centuries in making their voices heard.
- The first volume of its kind in English, providing an extensive chronological survey by leading scholars of more than 1400 years of women's writing in Italy
- Accessible, introductory approach will be particularly useful to undergraduates and interested generalists as well as advanced students and scholars
- Extensive reference features including bibliography of primary and secondary works and biographical guide to more than 150 women writers
Reviews & endorsements
"This useful and informative volume covers writing from the Renaissance to the present...The book is a welcome addition to the growing list of titles on Italian women's writing, particularly because it includes forms of writing that are exclusively literary." Choice
"This book complements Rinaldina Russell's fine bio-bibliographical Italian Women Writers." Italian Bookshelf
"...an important addition to our knowledge of women's writing...some of the most valuable contributions are precisely those essays that discuss topics beyond the limits of conventional literary genres." Italian Quarterly
"Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood have brilliantly edited a series of essays reappraising the rich and complex history of women's writing in Italy from the Renaissance to the present...Not only is this text a valuable contribution to the study of women's history but an indispensable introduction to the literary voices of women in Italian history." Comitatus
"A solid introduction to the writings...of women in Italy across seven centuries. This is a well-produced reference work that functions capably as a gendered literary history while concurrently providing...insightful textual analysis." Renaissance Quarterly
Product details
January 2001Hardback
9780521570886
378 pages
229 × 152 × 25 mm
0.72kg
Available
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Letizia Panizza
- Part I. The Renaissance, Counter-Reformation and Seventeenth Century:
- 1. Letter writing, 1350–1650 Maria Luisa Doglio
- 2. The fifteenth century: i. Humanism Letizia Panizza, ii. Vernacular poetry and mystery plays Judith Bryce
- 3. Lyric poetry Giovanna Rabitti
- 4. Fiction, 1560–1650 Virginia Cox
- 5. Polemical prose writing 1500–1650 Letizia Panizza
- 6. Religious and devotional writing, 1400–1500 Gabriella Zarri
- Part II. The Enlightenment and Restoration:
- 7. Eighteenth-century literature Luisa Ricaldone
- 8. Travel writing Ricciarda Ricorda
- 9. Journalism, 1750–1850 Verina Jones
- 10. Literary critics and scholars, 1700–1850 Adriana Chemello
- Part III. The Risorgimento and Modern Italy, 1850–2000:
- 11. Journalists and essayists, 1850–1915 Silvana Patriarca
- 12. The novel, 1870–1920 Lucienne Kroha
- 13. The popular novel, 1850–1920 Anna Laura Lepschy
- 14. Futurism and fascism, 1914–45 Lucia Re
- 15. The novel, 1945–65 Ann Hallamore Caesar
- 16. The novel, 1965–2000 Adalgisa Giorgio
- 17. Poetry, 1870–2000 Catherine O'Brien
- 18 Theatre and cinema, 1945–2000 Aine O'Healy
- 19. Aesthetics and critical theory Sharon Wood
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography.
