This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and in its consideration of female relationships based on admiration among performers and writers – the embodiment of a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.
| ISBN: | 9781032109510 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2023 |
| Author: | Katharine Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | The Nineteenth Century Series |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and in its consideration of female relationships based on admiration among performers and writers – the embodiment of a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships was written by Katharine Mitchell and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships has 224 pages
Yes it is part of The Nineteenth Century Series series
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