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.

ISBN Series Format Date Author Title (italicized titles forthcoming)
1-904350-72-0 IP 12 HB 256pp 2006 ed Anna Cento Bull, Adalgisa Giorgio Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s
1-904350-71-2 IP 13 HB 216pp 2006 Claire E. Honess From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante
1-904350-73-9 IP 14 HB 184pp 2006 ed Michael Caesar, Marina Spunta Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture
1-904713-06-8 IP 15 HB 282pp 2006 Lisa Sampson Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre
1-904350-60-7 IP 16 HB 304pp 2006 Vivienne Suvini-Hand Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy
978-1-905981-34-2 IP 17 HB 204pp 2007 Donatella Fischer Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale
978-1-906540-48-7 IP 18 HB 240pp 2009 ed Pierpaolo Antonello, Alan O'Leary Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009
978-1-906540-49-4 IP 19 HB 242pp 2009 Rhiannon Daniels Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520
978-1-906540-60-9 IP 20 HB 164pp 2011 Sandra Parmegiani Ugo Foscolo and English Culture
978-1-906540-74-6 IP 21 HB 222pp 2011 ed Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani,, Jennifer Burns The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers
978-1-907975-26-4 IP 22 HB 186pp 2012 Deborah Amberson Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda
978-1-907975-27-1 IP 23 HB 204pp 2012 ed Ruth Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder
978-1-907975-38-7 IP 24 HB 197pp 2012 Emma Bond Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
978-1-907975-79-0 IP 25 PB 202pp George Corbett Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment
978-1-907975-78-3 IP 26 PB 252pp ed Paolo Chirumbolo, John Picchione Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde
978-1-907975-80-6 IP 27 PB 226pp ed Donatella Fischer The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre
978-1-907975-91-2 IP 28 PB Fabio A. Camilletti Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
978-1-907975-99-8 IP 29 PB Katrin Wehling-Giorgi Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative
978-1-909662-00-1 IP 30 PB Laura Rorato Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture’s Appropriation of a Baroque Genius

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.