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This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature of
the day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. Chapters in this book examine
Vivanti’s output from multiple perspectives, taking into account her politics and her
career as a journalist, writer, and singer, as well as her literary work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: Constructing a Female Self
1 Ogres and Belles: Vivanti, Carducci, and Mentorship in Post-Unification Italy
Ombretta Frau
2 Performing Femininities: Singers, Sirens and Mothers
Ursula Fanning
3 From Circe to Fosca: Annie Vivanti and the Femme Fatale
Julie Dashwood
4 War Rape and Hybrid Birth
Cristina Gragnani
II: Translation and Cultural Mediation
5 Annie Vivanti's Transatlantic Crossings
Mariarosa Mettifogo
6 A 'Mistaken' Choice of Language? A Case of Self-Translation
Marianna Deganutti
7 Dominance and Subversion in Annie Vivanti's “Tenebroso Amore”
Sara Ceroni
III: Political Engagement and Journalism
8 Annie Vivanti, Journalist and Critic
Anne Urbancic
9 A Literary Collaboration: Annie Vivanti and Corriere della Sera
Erica Moretti
10 Annie Vivanti and the Struggle for Irish Independence
Chiara Chini
11 “La grande divoratrice:” Annie Vivanti's Friendship with Barbara Allason (1917–1921)
Noemi Crain Merz
IV: Vivanti Across Literary Genres

Product details

Published 12 Oct 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 312
ISBN 9781683930068
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Illustrations 6 b/w photos;
Dimensions 240 x 157 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Sharon Wood

Sharon Wood is professor emerita of Italian at the…

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Erica Moretti

Erica Moretti is assistant professor of Italian at…

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Sara Ceroni

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Chiara Chini

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Ombretta Frau

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Filippo Fonio

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Ursula Fanning

Ursula Fanning is associate professor of Italian s…

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Julie Dashwood

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Stephen Gundle

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Enrico Minardi

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Giulia Pezzuolo

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Lisa Sarti

Lisa Sarti is assistant professor of Italian at Bo…

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Simona Storchi

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Anne Urbancic

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