italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder of tomorrow's event at the University of Leeds:
'Non letterati, nč illiterati'. Readership and the 18th century Italian novel'.
Professor Ann Hallamore Caesar (University of Warwick)
Date and time: Wednesday 18 March 2015, 16:00-17.30
Venue: Parkinson SR B.22
For more information:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/20030/faculty_of_arts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/399512983529458/
ALL WELCOME!
Please find below further information about the paper and the speaker:
Abstract: While theatre dominated cultural life in eighteenth-century Venice, the city was also a place of far-reaching innovation in print culture which brought both the birth of the modern Italian novel and of modern journalism. The early part of the century saw the circulation of novels from France available either in French or in translation, (English novels soon followed), and then in 1753 the first Italian novel by Pietro Chiari, appeared followed by the publication of a further fifty Italian novels over the next thirty years with frequent reprints or new editions. Despite the exhaustive research that has been conducted into publishing and the history of the book, little hard evidence has been found to determine the readership of the novel in respect of gender, age, or social class. This talk will discuss who the readers might have been, how they became conversant with the conventions of the novel, and compare representations of the reader and reading with English novels circulating in Venice at the time.
Speaker: Ann Hallamore Caesar is Professor of Italian at the University of Warwick. She has published widely in the field of turn of the century comparative literary studies as well as on 19th and 20th century women writers and Pirandello. In particular her research has focused on readership and the domestic novel in Italy in the period after Unification, as well as on conduct literature, the 'salotto', women's journals, and letters and autobiographical writings of the time. Among her publications she has co-edited Printed Media in Fin-de-siecle Italy:
Publishers, Writers, and Readers (Legenda 2011) and she is co-author of Modern Italian Literature since 1690. A Cultural History (Polity Press, 2007). She is currently preparing a monograph on the rise of the novel in eighteenth-century Venice.
Best regards,
Olivia Santovetti
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Dr Olivia Santovetti
Lecturer in Italian
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT (UK)
tel: +44 (0)1133433635
fax: +44 (0)1133433477
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