Annie Chartres Vivanti

Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

Sharon Wood (Anthology Editor) , Erica Moretti (Anthology Editor) , Sabrina Cavallucci (Contributor) , Sara Ceroni (Contributor) , Chiara Chini (Contributor) , Ombretta Frau (Contributor) ,

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Annie Chartres Vivanti

Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

Sharon Wood (Anthology Editor) , Erica Moretti (Anthology Editor) , Sabrina Cavallucci (Contributor) , Sara Ceroni (Contributor) , Chiara Chini (Contributor) , Ombretta Frau (Contributor) ,

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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.

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

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Published	12 Oct 2016
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	312
ISBN	9781683930075
Imprint	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Illustrations	6 b/w photos;
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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Ursula Fanning is associate professor of Italian s…

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Lisa Sarti is assistant professor of Italian at Bo…

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Anne Urbancic

The academic rigor and the plurality of viewpoints of this edited collection serve well to offer scholarly readership a composite account of Vivanti’s polyhedric personality and writings. Firmly and stimulatingly engaging with the multiple cultural networks and contexts of Italy and beyond, this timely volume facilitates a full reappraisal of a key cultural figure of turn-the-century Italy.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
Annie Chartres Vivanti. Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture tackles the important and multifaceted oeuvre of this modern author.... [T]his collection adds significantly to the bibliography on Vivanti’s life and work. Annie Chartres Vivanti. Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture is a welcome, key reference in English on Annie Chartres Vivanti and her time; its essays offer a multifaceted approach to most of Vivanti’s works, which will hopefully inspire renewed attention to this important writer. The volume can also be an excellent source for courses on women writers, fin-de-siècle poetry and Italian literature, but also on the history of journalism, the representations and legacy of World War I, and transnational authors at large.

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