Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Mutiny in the House: Domestic Rebellion in Fausta Cialente’s Natalia

Contributor(s): Laura A. Salsini

The cult of domesticity positions women into a state of subservience while reinforcing gendered roles. The ideology was propagated in post-Unification Italy by Catholic doctrine as well as Fascist propaganda and practices that consigned women to the roles of wives and mothers. The physical site...

Post-Unification Gender Dissonances and Ideological Counter-Discourse in Capuana’s Rassegnazione

Contributor(s): Brian Zuccala

The article offers a (re)reading of Capuana’s often neglected novel Rassegnazione (1907), which revolves around the notion of gender-based violence as a central thematic trope. My reading illustrates Capuana’s deployment of the theme of femminicidio as a narrative tool through which to develop a...

Negotiations of a Woman’s Self: Liminal Experiences and Dialogic Reconsiderations in Anna Banti’s Un grido lacerante

Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article focuses on the authorial figure in Anna Banti’s last work, Un grido lacerante. An introspective portrait of an aging author whose life and career have been shaped by remorse over a lost vocation, the novel has traditionally been interpreted as an expression of the autobiographical...

Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Contributor(s): Elisabetta Carraro

Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake and Dana Renga. Internal exile in Fascist Italy. History and representation of confino

Contributor(s): Giuseppe Tosi

Danielle Hipkins. Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema (1940–1965)

Contributor(s): Paolo Frascà

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)

Contributor(s): Serena Ferrando

Giovanna Miceli Jeffries. Bitter Trades: A Memoir

Contributor(s): Carla Cornette

Paula M. Salvio. The Story-Takers. Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia

Contributor(s): Viktor Berberi

Jo Ann Cavallo, ed. Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic

Contributor(s): Madison U. Sowell

Tatiana Korneeva. The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere: 1600–1800

Contributor(s): Lauren Surovi

Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro. Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Contributor(s): Marina Bettaglio

Lavinia Spalanca. Il governo della menzogna. Antonfrancesco Grazzini e l’allegoria del potere

Contributor(s): Paolo Pucci

Simona Storchi, Marina Spunta and Maria Morelli, eds. Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood

Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

E. R. Dursteler, trans. and ed. In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Federica Capoferri. La Roma di MAMMA ROMA

Contributor(s): Alberto Zambenedetti

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

Contributor(s): Eleonora Lima

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article...