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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825266703321

Autore

Mitchell Katharine

Titolo

Italian women writers : gender and everyday life in fiction and journalism, 1870-1910 / / Katharine Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6564-5

1-4426-6563-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian studies Italian women writers

Disciplina

853/.8099287

Soggetti

Italian fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Italy - History - 19th century

Italian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Italian domestic fiction, its readers, and its writers -- Journalism, essays, conduct books -- Gendering private and public spheres -- Freeing negative emotions -- Female friendships, sibling relationships, mother-daughter bonds.

Sommario/riassunto

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.