Writing to Delight - Italian Short Stories By Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

'By recovering the lost masterpieces of Italian women writers, Writing to Delight adds significantly to the burgeoning field of canon revision in Italian studies. These carefully selected short stories, which have not previously been available in English, attest to the rich literary and cultural legacy of Italian women writers, and illustrate convincingly and often poignantly the restrictive ideal of female domesticity so prevalent in 19th century Italy. This is an extremely significant work.'-Laura Salsini

List of contents

Gabriella Romani

Introduction Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy:

Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings

Matilde Serao

Checchina’s Virtue

Neera

Paolina

Aunt Severina

The Lady of the Evening

Marchesa Colombi

Winter Evenings

Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day

Dear Hope

Caterina Percoto

The Bread of the Departed

The Caning

Contessa Lara

The Coral Necklace

Virginia Olper Monis

Woes of the Middle Class

Bruno Sperani

Scorn for Life

Afterword Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers

ANTONIA ARSLAN

Bio-Bibliographies of the Authors

About the author

By Antonia Arslan and Gabriella Romani

Summary

Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities.

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Arslan, Antonia Romani Arslan
• Assisted by: Antonia Arslan (Editor), Gabriella Romani (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2006
• EAN: 9780802038746
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3874-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Hardc; Toronto Italian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories