04395nam 2200637 450 991046470380332120200520144314.01-4426-6563-710.3138/9781442665637(CKB)3710000000114136(EBL)3292650(SSID)ssj0001366843(PQKBManifestationID)12584644(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001366843(PQKBWorkID)11439097(PQKB)11038795(MiAaPQ)EBC4669486(DE-B1597)465437(OCoLC)880715565(DE-B1597)9781442665637(MiAaPQ)EBC3292650(Au-PeEL)EBL4669486(CaPaEBR)ebr11256018(EXLCZ)99371000000011413620160914h20142014 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrItalian women writers gender and everyday life in fiction and journalism, 1870-1910 /Katharine MitchellToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (263 p.)Toronto Italian studies Italian women writers Description based upon print version of record.1-4426-4641-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Italian Domestic Fiction, Its Readers, and Its Writers -- Chapter Two. Journalism, Essays, Conduct Books -- Chapter Three. Gendering Private and Public Spheres -- Chapter Four. Freeing Negative Emotions -- Chapter Five. Female Friendships, Sibling Relationships, Mother–Daughter Bonds -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 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.Italian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureItalyHistory19th centuryItalian fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Italian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryItalian fictionHistory and criticism.853/.8099287Mitchell Katharine983248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464703803321Italian women writers2244543UNINA