About this Event
We are very pleased to be partnering with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo in order to bring you this facinating event with Katharine Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Italian Culture and Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where she will be talking about her new book .
Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as a range of canonical texts, the book brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It considers female relationships based on admiration among producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film, to argue that they embodied a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.
Katharine will be in conversation with Penny Morris, Professor of Italian Culture and Gender at the University of Glasgow.
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Doors: 6.30pm, event starts: 7pm
This event is free.
You can order a copy of the book here.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Blackwell's Bookshop, 53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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