Writing to Delight : Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.

Writing to Delight : Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.

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Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities.

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Main Author: Arslan, Antonia
Other Authors: Romani, Gabriella
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
Italian fiction > 19th century > Translations into English.
Italian fiction > Women authors > Translations into English.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy: Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings
  • Checchina's Virtue
  • Paolina
  • Aunt Severina
  • The Lady of the Evening
  • Winter Evenings
  • Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day
  • Dear Hope
  • The Bread of the Departed
  • The Caning
  • The Coral Necklace
  • Woes of the Middle Class
  • Scorn for Life
  • Afterword Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers
  • Bio-Bibliographies of the Authors.

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