Search Results - "Woman"

The birth of feminism woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / by Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975-

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Nineteenth-century Italian women writers and the woman questions : the case of Neera / by Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…, Il castigo, Il marito dell'amica, La Regaldina, Teresa, Lydia and L'indomani -- Motherhood and the Maternal in Neera's Theoretical Production -- Neera's Mothers: L'amuleto, La vecchia casa, Il romanzo della fortuna and Duello d'anime -- 3 Neera the Verist Woman Writer -- Naturalism and Verismo -- Neera and the Veristi: Public and Private Exchanges on Verismo -- Teresa, a Verist Novel -- Neera's Post-Verismo Production: Symbolism and Benedetto Croce -- 4 Letter Writing: A Tool of the Trade for Italian Women Writers…”
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Italian folktales in America the verbal art of an immigrant woman / by Mathias, Elizabeth

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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy Beth

Table of Contents: “…The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.…”
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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy by Luzzi, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…-- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart.…”
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Eccentricity and sameness : discourses on lesbianism and desire between women in Italy, 1860s-1930s / by Ross, Charlotte, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pathologies and passions in late nineteenth-century medical discourses -- Fatal attractions. troubling desires in the novel -- Flammable proximity: the scuola normale femminile and beyond -- From pathologization to the defence of pleasure: sexology and its parodies -- Literary luxury and cultural calls for female sexual liberation -- The desire without a name: visions of a difference that might have been -- Sexology and the new woman under fascism -- Tales of sexual initiation and sapphic feminism -- Loneliness, disorder and the disappearing lesbian.…”
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Italy on screen national identity and Italian imaginary /

Table of Contents: “…Italian (re)settings in British Cinema: Mike Barker's A good woman / Raffaella Antinucci -- The Duke's Versace sunglasses : Catholic piety and Italian otherness in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy / Maria Serena Marchesi -- Contemporary perspectives. …”
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