1st Edition
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830
By Susan Dalton
Copyright 2023
282 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
282 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
282 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.
Author Susan Dalton demonstrates how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity... Read more
1. Gender, Aesthetics and the Public in Venice 2. Women Writing Portraits 3. Editing and Interpreting Character in the Theatre 4. The Value of the Female Dilettante 5. Women and History
Biography
Susan Dalton is an associate professor of history at the Université de Montréal. Her latest research focusses on elite women’s roles as popularizers in the area of art and literature through the production of letteratura amena or light reading. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women’s History Review and was one of the co-authors of Interacting with Print: Intermediality in the Era of Print Saturation.
