Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture [Hardcover]

This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (18661942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature of
the day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. Chapters in this book examine
Vivantis output from multiple perspectives, taking into account her politics and her
career as a journalist, writer, and singer, as well as her literary work.

Sharon Wood is professor emerita of Italian at the University of Leicester.

Erica Moretti is assistant professor of Italian at Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY.

The academic rigor and the plurality of viewpoints of this edited collection serve well to offer scholarly readership a composite account of Vivantis polyhedric personality and writings. Firmly and stimulatingly engaging with the multiple cultural networks and contexts of Italy and beyond, this timely volume facilitates a full reappraisal of a key cultural figure of turn-the-century Italy. H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

Annie Chartres Vivanti. Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture tackles the important and multifaceted oeuvre of this modern author.... [T]his collection adds significantly to the bibliography on Vivantis life and work. Annie Chartres Vivanti. Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture is a welcome, key reference in English on Annie Chartres Vivanti and her time; its essays offer a multifaceted approach to most of Vivantis works, which will hopefully inspire renewed attention to this important writer. The volume can also be an excellent source for courses on women writers, fin-de-si?cle poetry and Italian literature, but also on the history of journalism, the representations and legacy of World War I, and transnatilÃ,