Italian Women Writers Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism 1870 1910 1st Edition by Katharine Mitchell ISBN 1442665637 9781442665637
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ISBN 10: 1442665637
ISBN 13: 9781442665637
Author: Katharine Mitchell
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 Women Writers Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism 1870 1910 1st Table of contents:
1 Italian Domestic Fiction, Its Readers, and Its Writers
Women Readers and Writers in the New Italy
Narrating the Past and Literary Realism
Realism and Italian Women Writers
2 Journalism, Essays, Conduct Books
Women Reading Newspapers
Columns by Women Writers in Newspapers and Journals
Journals for Women
Conduct Books, Essays, Letters
Neera, La Marchesa Colombi, Serao: Moderate Emancipationists?
3 Gendering Private and Public Spheres
The Private and the Public in the New Italy
The Private Sphere: The Italian Middle-Class Home
Thresholds: Doorways and Staircases
Thresholds: Balconies and Windows
The Public Sphere: The Outdoors
Sympathy for Women and Young Girls
4 Freeing Negative Emotions
Men’s Emotional Suffering
Women’s Emotional Suffering
The “Hysteric” in Realist Fiction
Doctors and “Hysterics” in the New Italy
The Doctor-“Hysteric” Dyad
Topoi of Auto-Eroticism and Narcissism
5 Female Friendships, Sibling Relationships, Mother–Daughter Bonds
Women Readers and Writers Revisited
Female Friendships
Sibling Relationships
Married Women
Friendships between Married Women
Motherhood
Mother–Daughter Relationships
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