Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jennifer Burns and Gabriella Romani.
Readership and Consumerism
1.Giacomo Mannironi, The Economics of Reading: Cultural Consumption of Novels and letteratura amena in Eighteenth-Century Venice.
2.Roberto Risso, “The Virtue of Wanting.” Galatei and Readers in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Training the Citizen and Educating the Public between Bourgeois Values and the Risorgimento.
3.Gabriella Romani, National Readership and Cultural Consumerism in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: Edmondo De Amicis and the Sentimental Appeal of his Fiction.
4.Giulia Brian, A “Question of Rule of Thumb!” Antonio Fogazzaro between Publishers and Readers.

Authorship, Readership and the Press
5.Martina Piperno, Constructing the Myth of Vico between Press and Literature (1802-1846).
6.Fabio Camilletti, Towards an Archaeology of Italian Modernity. Re-thinking the Classicist/Romantic Quarrel.
7.Federico Casari, Defining Young Audiences in Post-Unification Italy: Participation and Interaction in the Political and Literary Press.
8.Fabio Finotti, A Force Field: Literature, Journalism and the Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century.

Gendered Readership and Spectatorship
9.Paola Giuli, From Academy to Stage: Improvisation, Gender and National Character.
10.Adriana Chemello, The Revolution in Reading: From Manzoni’s “twenty-five readers” to the “twenty-five thousand female readers” of romanzi d’appendici.
11.Olivia Santovetti, Reading as “evasione militante”: Fosca (1869) by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.
12.Maria Grazia Lolla, Bovarysm in a New Key: The Reader of Novels and the Social Sciences in fin-de-siècle Italy.
13.Ombretta Frau and Cristina Gragnani, La Piccola Posta: Twitter for the Nineteenth-Century-Woman?
14.Katharine Mitchell, Evenings Out: Female Spectators of Opera and Theatre in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy.
About the Contributors
Index

About the Author

Gabriella Romani is associate professor of Italian at Seton Hall University

Jennifer Burns is associate professor of Italian at University of Warwick