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Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830

Dalton, Susan

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Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societi

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032190981
ISBN13: 9781032190983
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of the public - those on the receiving end of education - to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.

Author Susan Dalton demonstrates how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to establish themselves as published authors at the dawn of the nineteenth century in Venice. Many literary figures saw women as a group in need of education. By deploying essentialist understandings of femininity, whereby women possessed superior moral virtue but deficient rationality, these women entered the world of print as cultural mediators, identified by contemporaries as key players in the social projects of public education and moral edification central to the European Enlightenment. Focussing on Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi and Giustina Renier Michiel, both renowned Venetian authors, Dalton introduces two well-known Italian women of letters to English-speaking scholars, re-evaluates the impact of their writing in Italy and raises questions about female authorship across Europe, broadens our conceptions of gender norms, and enriches our knowledge of a little-known period of women's writing in Italy.

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