Italian Perspectives publishes books and collections of essays on any aspect and period of Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media, as well as studies which take an interdisciplinary approach and are methodologically innovative. At a time of growing academic interest, the series aims to bring together different scholarly perspectives on Italy and its culture.
The series was founded by Maney Publishing under the imprint of the Northern Universities Press, and moved to the Legenda imprint in 2005. As a result, manuscripts now need to follow the MHRA Style Guide, rather than that of the Italianist journal, as used before 2005.
Editorial Committee:
- Dr Simon Gilson, University of Warwick (General Editor)
- Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester
- Dr Manuele Gragnolati, Somerville College, Oxford
- Dr Catherine Keen, University College London
- Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford
Founding Editors:
- Professor Zygmunt Baranski, Cambridge University
- Professor Anna Laura Lepschy, University College London
Advisory Board: Patrick Boyde, UK; Patricia Brown, USA; Victoria De Grazia, USA; John Gatt-Rutter, Australia; Paul Ginsborg, Italy; Guglielmo Gorni, Switzerland; Giulio Lepschy, UK; Millicent Marcus, USA; Giuseppe Mazzotta, USA; Martin McLaughlin, UK; Lino Pertile, USA; Eduardo Saccone, Ireland; Rebecca West, USA; Diego Zancani, UK.
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda
Deborah Amberson
Italian Perspectives 22
Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009
Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan O’Leary
Italian Perspectives 18
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
Emma Bond
Italian Perspectives 24
Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s
Edited by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio
Italian Perspectives 12
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture
Edited by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta
Italian Perspectives 14
The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers
Edited by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns
Italian Perspectives 21
Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
Fabio A. Camilletti
Italian Perspectives 28
November 2013
Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Paolo Chirumbolo and John Picchione
Italian Perspectives 26
May 2013
Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment
George Corbett
Italian Perspectives 25
May 2013
Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520
Rhiannon Daniels
Italian Perspectives 19
Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale
Donatella Fischer
Italian Perspectives 17
The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre
Edited by Donatella Fischer
Italian Perspectives 27
August 2013
Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder
Edited by Ruth Glynn and Giancarlo Lombardi
Italian Perspectives 23
From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante
Claire E. Honess
Italian Perspectives 13
Ugo Foscolo and English Culture
Sandra Parmegiani
Italian Perspectives 20
Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture’s Appropriation of a Baroque Genius
Laura Rorato
Italian Perspectives 30
2014
Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre
Lisa Sampson
Italian Perspectives 15
Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy
Vivienne Suvini-Hand
Italian Perspectives 16
Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Italian Perspectives 29
2014
The eleven titles published in the series under the Northern Universities Press imprint are:
| 11 | Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples Felia Allum |
| 10 | Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel Ruth Glynn |
| 9 | Fragments of Impegno Jennifer Burns |
| 8 | Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri’s Poetry and Late Medieval Society Fabian Alfie |
| 7 | Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni Maggie Günsberg |
| 6 | Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood Claudia Nocentini |
| 5 | Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste Elizabeth Schächter |
| 4 | Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written Guido Bonsaver |
| 3 | Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women’s Narrative Rita Wilson |
| 2 | Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart |
| 1 | The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 Edited by Prue Shaw |
These titles remain available in paperback: please see www.maneypublishing.com/series/italianperspectives.

