Gender, Writing, Spectatorships: Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367265014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Katharine Mitchell

Opis

This monograph examines Italian women as protagonists and consumers of literature, theatre, opera, and film. Using personal writing, journalism, and canonical texts, it analyses female performance and women’s responses.

O autorze

Katharine Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Italian Culture and Gender at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She is author of Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910 (Toronto University Press, 2014), and among her co-edited volumes are Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy: Between Private and Public Spheres (Peter Lang, 2013) and Matilde Serao: International Profile, Reception, and Networks (Classiques Garnier, 2022).