WSC Bookshelf

Please send us your publication information for our new bookshelf — cfabbian@uic.edu and gragnani@temple.edu. We will include WSC’s members’ articles and books published since 2009. Please, limit your submissions to works already published, not in progress. We hope that this new space will soon become a growing bibliography to help all of us at the WSC to stay in touch with the discipline and each other.

a presto,
Cristina and Chiara

  • Ombretta Frau, Cristina Gragnani. Sottoboschi letteari. Sei case studies tra Otto e Novecento: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno. Firenze University Press 2011.

    [added 1 Feb 2012]

  • Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Donne in terza pagina. Racconti di scrittrici italiane 1925-1942. Novi Ligure: Puntoacapo Editrice, 2010.

    [added 3 Sep 2011]

  • Cristina Ali Farah. Translated by Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto. Introduction by Alessandra Di Maio. Indiana University Press, 2011

    [added 4 Aug 2011]

  • Cosetta Seno Reed. “Anna Maria Ortese e il fantastico. Una prospettiva femminile” Rassegna europea della letteratura italiana, 36 (2010): 129-140

    [added 3 June 2011]

  • Cosetta Seno Reed. “Alba De Cespedes. Il diario come spazio utopico” Esperienze Letterarie, 2 (2010): 56-68.

    [added 3 June 2011]

  • Federica Falchi, *L’itinerario politico di Regina Terruzzi. Dal mazzinianesimo al fascismo*, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2008

    [added 3 June 2011]

  • Federica Falchi, *Giuseppe Mazzini: la democrazia europea e i diritti delle donne*, Firenze, Centro Editoriale Toscano, 2010

    [added 3 June 2011]

  • Ombretra Frau, “Fra libri e rammendi: una letterata nel verziere di Jolanda”, Versants, 57, n. 2, 2010: 163-179

    [added 3 June 2011]

  • Lazzaro Weiss, C. Review of Cutrufelli, Maria Rosa. “Reasonable Doubt. Translation of Complice il dubbio.” Translated by G. Sanguinetti Katz and Anne Urbancic and with prefatory essays by the translators. Welland, ON: éditions Soleil, 2007, Quaderni d’Italianistica 31, 2 (2010), 206-208.

    [added 5 May 2011]

  • Urbancic, Anne. “The Invasion of Belgium (1914): Memory and the Re-writing of History”, Rewriting Texts, Remaking Images. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by L. Boldt, C. Federici and E. Virgulti. New York
    etc: Peter Lang, 2010, 63-76. (on Annie Vivanti’s play L’Invasore, 1914)

    [added 5 May 2011]

  • Urbancic, Anne. “Social Deviants and Freakish Misfits in the Short Stories of Annie Vivanti” in Monstrous Deviations in Literatures and the Arts. Eds. Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr. Oxford: Interdisciplinarity.net Press, 2010, pp. 63-80.

    [added 5 May 2011]

  • Silvia Valisa. ‘Still figures: Photography, modernity and gender in Neera’s Fotografie matrimoniali’, “Rethinking Neera”, con contributi inediti su Neera, Eds. C. Ramsay-Portolano e K. Mitchell, The Italianist, 30, December Special issue, 2010.

    [http://www.aur.edu/american-university-rome/2010/12/rethinking-neera/]

    [added 5 May 2011]

  • Thomas Simpson, Murder and Media in the New Rome, (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)

    Studies a scandalous trial and its surrounding media circus that took place in Rome in 1879. The trial, of an adulterous couple that murdered the wife’s husband, shocked the nation because women attended the daily trial sessions in droves, a phenomenon that dismayed the guardians of rectitude of the new state. Giosue Carducci, for example, wrote his epode, “A proposito del processo Fadda,” to denounce women’s attendance at the trial.

    [http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=476425]

    [added 5 May 2011]

  • Edith Bruck, Privato. Postfazione by Gabriella Romani. Milan: Garzanti, 2010

    [added 1 June 2010]

  • Cristina Gragnani, “Un soffio, un alito di modernità”? Elda Gianelli e la scrittura mutante”, Proceedings of VII Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Italianos, 22-26 de septiembre de 2007, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Càtedra Extraordinaria Italo Calvino, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras: Italia y la Generación 1900-1910. Eds. Mariapia Lamberti – Franca Bizzoni. México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2009: 43-60.

    [added 1 July 2010]

  • Julia L. Hairston and Walter Stephens (editors), The Body in Early Modern Italy, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

    Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any other element of human experience. The essays in this volume explore the manifestations of the body in Italian society from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.

    [http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu:80/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801894145&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y]

    [added 1 July 2010]

  • Angela Jeannet, Il grande risveglio. Il movimento delle donne nell’America profonda, Franco Angeli, 2010

    “Una testimonianza dell’impatto capillare che il movimento delle donne ebbe negli Stati Uniti. Attraverso l’evocazione di un luogo e di un momento storico, il racconto di ciò che accadde a Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, rivela quanto rivoluzionaria possa essere la visione del mondo da parte delle donne, anche di quelle che non si definiscono radicali e non si identificano nel movimento femminista.”

    [http://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_Libro.asp?ID=18290&Tipo=Libro&titolo=Il+grande+risveglio.+Il+movimento+delle+donne+nell%27%27America+profonda]

    [added 19 May 2010]

  • Gina Lagorio, Tosca the Cat Lady, trans. by Martha King. New York: Bordighera Press, 2009

    [added 1 June 2010]