Evenings out : female spectators of opera and theatre in late nineteenth-century Italy
Mitchell, Katharine; Burns, Jennifer and Romani, Gabriella, eds. (2017) Evenings out : female spectators of opera and theatre in late nineteenth-century Italy. In: The Formation of a National Audience. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ISBN 9781611478006
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The chapter argues that the modes of listening to, and watching, female artists performing live from the 1830s onwards prompted an unprecedented engagement on behalf of female spectators - to the extent that it opened up new ways for them of feeling and thinking about their sexual, social, and economic selves in late 19th century Italy following the rise of female literacy and better access to education.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 51821 Dates: DateEvent4 June 2017Published2016AcceptedSubjects: Language and Literature > French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature
History General and Old World > History (General) > Europe (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Italian
Strategic Research Themes > Society and PolicyDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Feb 2015 15:48 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 13:18 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51821