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.
Published January 2006
Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s |
Published May 2006
From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture |
Published September 2006
Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre |
Published December 2006
Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy |
Published November 2007
Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale |
Published July 2009
Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009 Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 |
Published 11 May 2011
Ugo Foscolo and English Culture |
Published 6 July 2011
The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers |
Published 30 January 2012
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder |
Published October 2012
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini |
Forthcoming May 2013
Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde |
Forthcoming August 2013
The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre |
Forthcoming November 2013
Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny |
Forthcoming 2014
Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative 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.


May 2013