Women's writing in Italy from Unification to the present day, examining the lives and works of women writers within the context of Italian history, culture and

This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, p

Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and p

A wide range of French women writers are surveyed, including Sand, Colette, Beauvoir and Duras among the "canonized", and many marginalized or forgotten and con