Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914
Author: Valeria P. Babini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137396997

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.

Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II vol 7

Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II vol 7
Author: Jennie Batchelor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104024436X

Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.

Lady Morgan's Italy

Lady Morgan's Italy
Author: Donatella Abbate Badin
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1933146087

This is a scholarly study of Lady Morgan(Sydney Owenson)and her travel writings on post Napoleonic Italy. Morgan, a friend of Byron and Moore, brought a unique Anglo-Irish slant and liberal temperment to her travels and adventures in Italy; she also was the first woman from the British literary world to extensively travel and report on 19th c Italy.