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Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters
This volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence.
Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this collection proposes a new methodological frame, one that is less hierarchical in approach and more focused, instead, on the nature of these interactions, on their Addisonian “usefulness,” declared goals, and (un)intended results. By shifting focus from a cultural-historicist approach to sociability to the rhizomatic nature of eighteenth-century associations, this collection approaches them through new methodological lenses that include social network analysis, assemblage and graph theory, social media and digital humanities scholarship. Imagining t...
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it. Author Susan Dalton demonstrates how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to establish themselves as published authors at the dawn of the nineteenth century in Venice. Many literary figures saw women as a group in need of education. By deploying essentialist understandings of femininity, whereby women possessed superior moral virtue but deficient rationality, these women...
A History of Women's Writing in Italy
This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.
