Italian women writers : gender and everyday life in fiction and journalism, 1870-1910 /
"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 rura...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
Universtiy of Toronto Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Toronto Italian studies
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| Summary: | "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 |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index |
| ISBN: | 1442646411 (bound) 1442646411 9781442646414 (bound) 9781442646414 |