TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salsini,Laura
TI  - Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers' Epistolary 
SN  - 9781442641655
AV  - PQ4181.E65 S35 2010eb
U1  - 853.009/9287 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Epistolary fiction, Italian
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Italian fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Love Letters --; 2. Literary Responses --; 3. Making Connections --; 4. Addressing Women --; Postscript --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels purposely tie narrative structure to thematic content, creating in the process powerful texts that reflect and challenge literary and socio-cultural norms.Through the lens of the genre, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology. She also analyses what may be the first woman-authored Italian example of epistolary fiction: Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati's Lettere di Giulia Willet (1818). In their reworking of the epistolary narrative form, Italian women writers challenged dominant assumptions about female behaviours, roles, relationships, and sexuality in modern Italy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687233
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687233
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442687233/original
ER  -