Italian Women Writers : Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Culture, Gender, and the Everyday in the New Italy -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Italian Women Writerslooks at the work of three of the most significant women in late nineteenth century Italy whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership.

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