| A History of Women's Writing in Italy Contributor(s): Panizza, Letizia (Editor), Wood, Sharon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521570883 ISBN-13: 9780521570886 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 850.992 |
| LCCN: 00037914 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 378 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to light other forms of expression such as letter writing, religious and devotional writing, travel writing, and journalism. Contributors point to the considerable practical, social and ideological difficulties faced by women in writing and presenting their work to a wider reading public, but also highlight the determination of women through the centuries in making their voices heard. |
Contributor Bio(s): Panizza, Letizia: - Letizia Panizza is senior lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway College, University of London. She is a contributor to The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (1996) on Italian humanists and on the fifteenth century. In Women's Studies she has published a critical edition of Arcangela Tarabotti's Che le donne siano della spezie degli uomini (Women are no less rational than men) (1994). She is also the translator and editor of Tarabotti's Paternal Tyranny (2000), and the editor of Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (1999). She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.Wood, Sharon: - Sharon Wood is reader in Italian at Strathclyde University. She has specialised in the study of modern and contemporary narrative, with particualr reference to women's writing. She is the author of Woman as Object: Language and Gender In the Work of Alberto Moravia (1990) and Italian Women's Writing 1860 1994 (1995). In 1993 she published a critical anthology of short stories called Italian Women Writers. |