Research Catalog

Title

Conduct literature for and about women in Italy : 1470-1900 : prescribing and describing life / edited by Helena Sanson and Francesco Lucioli.

Publication

• Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2016.
• copyright 2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sanson, Helena
• Lucioli, Francesco

Description

437 pages : illustrations (some color), charts; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Women and gender in Italy (1500-1900) ; 1

Subjects

• Women > Italy > Social conditions > Congresses
• Conduct of life in literature > Congresses
• Women > Italy > Conduct of life > Congresses
• Italian literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
• Sex role in literature > Congresses

Note

• Includes revised versions of the proceedings of the international conference held in Cambridge, March 20-21, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-411) and index.

Language (note)

• Texts in English or Italian, includes abstracts in English and French or Italian and French.

Contents

Writing about women's conduct -- Conduct for the Real Widow. Giulio Cesare Cabei's Ornamenti della gentildonna vedova (1574) -- Vincenzo Nolfi's Ginipedia (1631). Household Management and Civic Femininity in Seventeenth-Century Italy -- La perfetta claustrale. Manuali sei-settecenteschi per l'istruzione delle monache -- L' Amico delle fancidle da Parigi a Venezia -- Gender, Genre and Education. Writing about Conduct in Eighteenth-Century Venice -- Conduct for women by women -- Letteratura di condotta e vita delle donne nelle opere di Moderata Fonte e Lucrezia Marinelli -- The Structures of Conduct Literature in Post-Unification Italy. La Marchesa Colombi's La gente per bene, Anna Vertua Gentile's Corne devo comportarmi?, and Matilde Serao's Saper vivere -- "La giovane nella famiglia. Consigli di una vecchia nonna". Women's Writings and Writings for Women in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- Conduct "in disguise" -- "An mulieribus licitum sit se ornare". Female Appearance as an Emerging Object of Juridical Regulation between the Middle Ages and the Early Modem Times -- Advising on Women's Conduct in Renaissance Paratexts -- L'anatomia del cuore e del cervello delle donne. Descrizione, prescrizione e ironia nel XVIII secolo -- "Dal salotto alla cucina". Le buone maniere nei manuali di cucina e di economia domestica nell'Italia postunitaria -- Istruzione femminile e metamorfosi dell'identità in Italia fra Ottocento e Novecento -- Conduct, women, and work -- Dal lavoro alla disciplina. Precettistica e libri di ricami -- Un modello alla rovescia. Comportamenti e mestieri femminili nell'opera di Giulio Cesare Croce -- Un altro saper vivere. Donna, lavoro, buon comportamento tra Otto e Novecento.

Call Number

ReCAP 16-66495

ISBN

9782406059165 (pbk.)

OCLC

961211957

Title

Conduct literature for and about women in Italy : 1470-1900 : prescribing and describing life / edited by Helena Sanson and Francesco Lucioli.

Publisher

Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2016.

Copyright Date

copyright 2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Women and gender in Italy (1500-1900) ; 1

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-411) and index.

Language

Texts in English or Italian, includes abstracts in English and French or Italian and French.

Added Author

Sanson, Helena, editor.

Lucioli, Francesco, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 16-66495