{"product_id":"italian-women-writers-9781442646414","title":"Italian Women Writers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePost-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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mitchell's book remains a valuable addition to the scholarship on Italian women writers for the issues raised and their well-articulated discussion.' -- Ioana Raluca Larco English Studies in Canada vol 41:03:2015 'Mitchell's study is a scholarly work of undoubted value... This volume will not only appeal to scholars of Italian studies but also of women's writing and women's studies in general.' -- Tristana Rorandelli SHARP News August 21, 2016 'In this groundbreaking study, Mitchell analyzes some domestic fiction and some non-fiction pieces - especially journalism and essays - of three middleclass Italian women who were professionally active between 1870 and 1910.' -- C. De Santi Choice Magazine, vol 52:02:2015 Katharine Mitchell offers an invaluable, comprehensive assessment of three pivotal nineteenth-century writers whose works were largely unstudied until the 1970s: La Marchesa Colombi Neera, and Matilde Serao.' -- Monica Streifer Modern Language Review vol 111:04:2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Preface  Introduction: Culture, gender, and the everyday in the new Italy  Chapter One: Italian Domestic Fiction, its Readers, and 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  Bibliography  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408368836951,"sku":"9781442646414","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442646414.jpg?v=1730502642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-women-writers-9781442646414","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}