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Antonia Arslan & Gabriella Romani
Writing to Delight:
Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

The nineteenth century represents a crucial historical and cultural phase in the development of modern Italy. Writing to Delight provides a selection of short stories written by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female authors of nineteenth-century Italy, made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time through this translation. The stories that make up this anthology are written in a realistic vein and describe the life and concerns of women at a time when Italy was going through major social and economic changes. Imbued with didactic aims, the authors of these stories strove to inspire and at the same time educate their public.

Antonia Arslan has been a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padova. Gabriella Romani is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Seton Hall University.