Italian women writers, 1800-2000: boundaries, borders, and transgression

Introduction

Section I. Confinement, and shifting boundaries in post-unification writing by women / Anna Hallamore Caesar

Women writers confined: the case of Neera / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

Nineteenth century women writers between marginality and (aspirations of) inclusion: a puzzling balance / Cristina Gragnani and Ombretta Frau

Sardinian confines in the works of Grazia Deledda / Rhianedd Jewell

Section II. Boundaries, the work of writing and the female soul / Giuliana Morandini

The dialogue with the dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem / Eleanor David

Staging motherhood: considering Annie Vivanti's fact and fiction / Anne Urbancic

The shadow of the author in La storia / Margherita Ganeri

Section III. Topographies of identity / Rita Wilson

Across languages, cultures and nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò / Simone Brioni

The mediation of borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani / Donatella De Ferra

Crossing boundaries and borders: Matilde Serao's travel writing / Patrizia Sambuco.