Table of Contents:
  • Confinement, and shifting boundaries in post-unification writing by women / Anna Hallamore Caesar
  • Women writers confined: the case of Neera / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
  • Nineteenth century women writers between marginality and (aspirations of) inclusion: a puzzling balance / Cristina Gragnani and Ombretta Frau
  • Sardinian confines in the works of Grazia Deledda / Rhianedd Jewell
  • Boundaries, the work of writing and the female soul / Giuliana Morandini
  • The dialogue with the dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem / Eleanor David
  • Staging motherhood: considering Annie Vivanti's fact and fiction / Anne Urbancic
  • The shadow of the author in La storia / Margherita Ganeri
  • Topographies of identity / Rita Wilson
  • Across languages, cultures and nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò / Simone Brioni
  • The mediation of borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani / Donatella De Ferra
  • Crossing boundaries and borders: Matilde Serao's travel writing / Patrizia Sambuco.