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Representations of Female Identity in Italy
This volume explores a variety of iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. The contributors here apply various methodologies to characterize the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities, drawing from literature, film, drama, history, the humanities, media and cultural studies. Cross-genre, cross-cultural, and cross-national explorations are also utilised here in order to underline the multifaceted ways in which de facto female characterization occurred.
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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour
The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa, undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections, was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study, Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art, architecture, and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style, as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to ev...
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With a Pen in Her Hand
Contents: Giuliana Morandini, Risorgimento al femminile; Ricciarda Ricorda, In viaggio fra Occidente e Oriente: Cristina di Belgiojoso scrittrice e saggista; Angiola Ferraris, I giornali femminili della metà dell'Ottocento; Ann Hallamore Caesar, Proper Behaviour: Women, the Novel, and Conduct Books in Nineteenth-Century Italy; Francesca Sanvitale, Neera, scrittrice della nuova Italia; Emmanuelle Genevois, L'esperienza verista nell'opera della Marchesa Colombi; Adalgisa Giorgio, A Room of One's Own: Gender and Genius in Annie Vivanti's I divoratori; Lucienne Kroha and Alexandra Haedrich, Modernity and Gender-Role Conflict in Maria Messina; Emmanuela Tandello, Tradition and Innovation in the 1880s: Annie Vivanti and Contessa Lara; Sharon Wood, Cecilia Stazzone and Sicilian Theatre; Paolo Puppa, Giacinta Pezzana tra scena e pagina.
