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

• 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.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Könsroller i litteraturen  (sao)

Italian fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Italy -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Italian fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Vardagslivet  (kao)

Kvinnobilden  (kao)

Mansbilden  (kao)

Relationer  (kao)

Everyday life  (kao//eng)

Image of women  (kao//eng)

Image of men  (kao//eng)

Relations  (kao//eng)

Italian fiction.  (fast)

Women and literature.  (fast)

Frauenliteratur.  (gnd)

Journalismus.  (gnd)

Litteraturvetenskap  -- journalistik -- 1800-talet -- sekelskiftet 1900 (kao)

Författare  -- journalister (kao)

Literary studies  -- journalism -- Italy -- 19th century -- turn of the century 1900 (kao//eng)

Authors  -- journalists (kao//eng)

Italienska kvinnliga författare  -- historia (sao)

Kvinnliga journalister  -- historia (sao)

Italian fiction  -- Women authors. (fast)

Sex role in literature  (LCSH)

Italien  (sao)

Italy.  (fast)

Italien.  (gnd)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800 - 1899  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Marchesa Colombi, 1840-1920

Neera, pseud. för Anna Radius Zuccari, 1846-1918

Serao, Matilde, 1856-1927

Klassifikation

PQ4173 (LCC)

PQ4063 (LCC)

PQ4173 (LAC)

853.8099287 (DDC)