Writing to Delight : Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers /
The nineteenth century represents a crucial historical and cultural phase in the development of modern Italy. -- Writing to Delight -- provides a selection of short stories written by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female authors of nineteenth-century Italy, made available to an English...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Scenes from nineteenth-century Italy: delightful stories on those long, long, winter evenings / Gabriella Romani
- Checchina's virtue / Matilde Serao
- Paolina ; Aunt Severina ; The lady of the evening / Neera
- Winter evenings ; Learn a trade for a rainy day ; Dear hope / Marchesa Colombi
- The bread of the departed ; The caning / Caterina Percoto
- The coral necklace / Contessa Lara
- Woes of the middle class / Virginia Olper Monis
- Scorn for life / Bruno Sperani
- Afterword: Ladies, chickens, and queens: the stron voices of Italian women writers / Antonia Arslan.