Katharine Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Italian Society of Physiotherapy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9147-8285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships
This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spec…
The Diva in Modern Italian Culture
This special issue arises from the papers delivered at the two-day conference in September 2011 entitled Desiring Divas: the Diva in Modern Italian Culture (Downing College, Cambridge, organized by
Beauty Italian Style
In this article I argue that Bartky’s ‘fashion-beauty complex’ — a major articulation of capitalist patriarchy which seeks to glorify the female body, yet covertly depreciates it — gained momentum in Italian culture at the end of the nineteenth century through the emergence of the cosmetic industry and divas’ advertising of beauty products in women’s magazines. Through a close reading of the literary culture (reviews of divas’ performances in wom…
Italian Women Writers
Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy
In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman’s place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to engage in pursuits that had previously been the exclusive domain of men. This book traces some of the steps of this shift in cultural perception. Covering the period from the Unification of Italy in 18…
Neera's refiguring of hysteria as nervosismo in Teresa and L'Indomani
Recent Work on Italian Opera Studies
The focus of this review article is recent work in opera studies whose librettists and composers were from Italy
Narrativizing women's experiences in late nineteenth-century Italy through domestic fiction
Drawing upon the domestic fiction by Italian women writers of the late nineteenth-century, in this article I argue that we can use this as evidence of history as a cultural undertaking. Through a reading of a selection of popular novels and short stories intended for a female readership, I demonstrate how domestic fiction provides crucial textual evidence for us to rediscover and reinterpret the (hi)story of women's sentiments and experiences in …
Neera's refiguring of hysteria as nervosismo in Teresa and L'Indomani
In this article I argue that Neera represents her protagonists’ experiences of psychosomatic symptoms as nervosismo rather than hysteria, thus seeking to counter and readdress notions of female sexuality and eroticism as threatening and unfathomable in the collective consciousness
La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, Matilde Serao
The last two decades have seen the publication of studies on women writers from late-nineteenth-century Italy that have sought to reinstate their proper place in the Italian literary canon. This article examines the journalism of three such writers who wrote about common themes in their fiction and non-fiction. Through an examination of a selection of their journalism, I demonstrate that when intended for a predominantly male readership this typi…
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La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, Matilde Serao
The last two decades have seen the publication of studies on women writers from late-nineteenth-century Italy that have sought to reinstate their proper place in the Italian literary canon. This article examines the journalism of three such writers who wrote about common themes in their fiction and non-fiction. Through an examination of a selection of their journalism, I demonstrate that when intended for a predominantly male readership this typi…
Recent Work on Italian Opera Studies
The focus of this review article is recent work in opera studies whose librettists and composers were from Italy
Narrativizing women's experiences in late nineteenth-century Italy through domestic fiction
Drawing upon the domestic fiction by Italian women writers of the late nineteenth-century, in this article I argue that we can use this as evidence of history as a cultural undertaking. Through a reading of a selection of popular novels and short stories intended for a female readership, I demonstrate how domestic fiction provides crucial textual evidence for us to rediscover and reinterpret the (hi)story of women's sentiments and experiences in …
Neera's refiguring of hysteria as nervosismo in Teresa and L'Indomani
In this article I argue that Neera represents her protagonists’ experiences of psychosomatic symptoms as nervosismo rather than hysteria, thus seeking to counter and readdress notions of female sexuality and eroticism as threatening and unfathomable in the collective consciousness
Neera's refiguring of hysteria as nervosismo in Teresa and L'Indomani
Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy
In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman’s place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to engage in pursuits that had previously been the exclusive domain of men. This book traces some of the steps of this shift in cultural perception. Covering the period from the Unification of Italy in 18…
Italian Women Writers
The Diva in Modern Italian Culture
This special issue arises from the papers delivered at the two-day conference in September 2011 entitled Desiring Divas: the Diva in Modern Italian Culture (Downing College, Cambridge, organized by
Beauty Italian Style
In this article I argue that Bartky’s ‘fashion-beauty complex’ — a major articulation of capitalist patriarchy which seeks to glorify the female body, yet covertly depreciates it — gained momentum in Italian culture at the end of the nineteenth century through the emergence of the cosmetic industry and divas’ advertising of beauty products in women’s magazines. Through a close reading of the literary culture (reviews of divas’ performances in wom…
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships
This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spec…
Art (8 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)