1st Edition
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond
Introduction
Chapter One Towards Cross-Disciplinary Female Spectatorships
Chapter Two Spectators, Traviate, and Women’s Access to Culture
Chapter Three The Private Female Gaze
Chapter Four The Public Female Gaze
Chapter Five The Imaginary Female Gaze
Chapter Six The Female Gaze Beyond Italy
Conclusion
Appendix
Biography
Katharine Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Italian Culture and Gender at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She is author of Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910 (Toronto University Press, 2014), and among her co-edited volumes are Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy: Between Private and Public Spheres (Peter Lang, 2013) and Matilde Serao: International Profile, Reception, and Networks (Classiques Garnier, 2022).
