Giulietta, ovvero il Seguito dell'Impresario in Rovina.

[CHIARI, Pietro].

Published by no printer, Venice, 1771

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PIETRO CHIARI AND THE STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST. 8vo. (8), 94 pp, (2), including engr. frontispiece. Contemporary publisher s cartonnato, re-cased and restored. First edition. A typically Chiari-esque tale of the young singer Giuletta and her love-affair with an elderly Greek man, Patagiro. Giulietta s adventures take her from Paris to London, where she falls in with a Scotsman named Smaccleton . "Impersonating the female voice and point of view was a surreptitious means of promoting women s reform that was exploited by a number of male authors of the period. The literary genres commandeered by male authors feigning to cross the gender divide were often those explicitly directed at a female public: women s magazines, popular periodicals, and defenses of the sex. This male ventriloquism was not an empathetic interpretation of women s experience and desire, and the primary object was not to challenge or to complicate traditional notions of gender and sexual difference. On the contrary, the mask of femininity served as a means of re-authorizing the traditional paradigm, of re-articulating the dominant discourse about women, and of impelling women s conformity and obedience." (Messbarger, "Double-Crossing: Female Impersonation in Gasparo Gozzi's "Gazzetta veneta"" The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 35 (2002), pp. 1-13. OCLC shows a single US copy, at Yale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Giulietta, ovvero il Seguito dell'Impresario in Rovina.
• Publisher: no printer, Venice
• Publication Date: 1771
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women & Writing
  • Illustrated