Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question
focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of
Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one
of the most prolific and successful women writers of late
nineteenth-century Italy. This study proposes to bring Neera out of
the shadows of literary marginality to which she has long been
confined by analyzing her contribution to literary and cultural
debates as testimony to the pivotal role she played in the creation
of a female literary voice within the Italian fin-de-siecle
context. Drawing from the Anglo-American feminist critical
tradition; modern Italian feminist theory on the maternal order and
sexual difference; and a close reading of Neera's literary,
theoretical and epistolary writings this volume examines Neera's
work from a three-pronged perspective: as promoter of a maternal
order in contrast to the existent paternal order, as one of few
women writers to participate actively in Italy's verismo movement
and as epistolary correspondent of leading representatives within
fin-de-siecle Italian literary and journalistic circles.
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question
represents the first monographic volume in English dedicated
exclusively to this important Italian woman writer, repositioning
her within the Italian literary landscape and canon.
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