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Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Helena Sanson
420 pages
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32 illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-726483-6
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Hardback
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08 September 2011
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- Innovative study of the Italian linguistic tradition
- A new approach to the role of women in the history of Italian language and grammar
This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from the codification of Italian as a literary language to the formation of a unified state. It investigates the role played by women in the Italian linguistic tradition as addressees, readers or authors of grammatical texts.
In spite of the ever-growing interest in different aspects of women's life in the Western world through the centuries, little attention has been given up to now to women's linguistic education, their relationship with
grammar and the ideas about their use of language. In the context of Italy, these questions were virtually unexplored.
This study is the result of extensive first-hand research and detailed analysis of primary sources (well-known texts, as well as minor and rare ones), brought together for the first time and made available to a wider public. Sources range from more specifically linguistic writings, to texts on women's education and conduct books, from literary works (e.g. novels, short-stories, poetry, plays, satirical writings, children's literature), to official government documents, newspapers articles, women's magazines, school texts, letters and memoirs.
Its interdisciplinary approach and the richness of its sources make this volume an engaging journey across
four centuries in the history of the Italian language the history of grammar, the history of linguistic thought, and the history of women and their education. This is the first work of its kind in the field of Italian studies. Relevant illustrations accompany the book offering readers also a visual appreciation and understanding of the subjects and themes examined in the six chapters.Readership: Scholars and student of Italian studies, history of the Italian language, women's studies, Italian history
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Helena Sanson, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College Dr Helena Sanson is Senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Department of Italian, and Fellow of Clare College. She has a PhD from the University of Reading and taught at University College London before taking up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cambridge between 2003 and 2005. Dr Sanson is the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2009).
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"[an] excellent and stimulating study ... richly detailed and illustrated" - Jane Everson, Times Literary Supplement
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Prologue: On Grammar and Women
1: Grammatica: the key to knowledge
2: The Spoken Language, the Written Language
3: The Scope of this Book
PART I (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
1: Women, the Vernacular, and Classical Languages
2: Women and Vernacular Grammar
PART TWO (Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries)
3: Women and Language in the Secolo delle donne
4: Knowledge and Language 'for the ladies'
PART THREE (The Nineteenth Century)
5: Women and the Mother Tongue in the Ottocento
6: Women Writing on Language
Epilogue
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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