Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, p

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 p

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 for

This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as prota

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 no