Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola”

Michela Barisonzi

Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola”

Michela Barisonzi

Italian Studies

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Abstract

This contribution discusses the representation of rape and violence against women in late 19th century Italian literature. In doing so, I focus on a short story, La Vergine Orsola,
initially written by Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1884 as part of a short story collection titled Il Libro delle Vergini, later re-published in 1902 in Le Novelle della Pescara. This contribution looks at how the idea of rape is used in this short story as a narrative escamotage to bring to the attention of the reader the question of female entitlement to sexual desire as part of a social critique that D’Annunzio brings forward in his fin-de-siècle novels and short stories.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
Subtitle of host publication	Offerings for Annamaria Pagliaro
Editors	Samuele Grassi, Brian Zuccala
Place of Publication	Italy
Publisher	Firenze University Press
Pages	89-111
Number of pages	23
Volume	66
ISBN (Electronic)	9788855185974, 9788855185981
Publication status	Published - 2022

Publication series

Name	Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Publisher	Firenze University Press
Volume	66

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Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola”. / Barisonzi, Michela.
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons: Offerings for Annamaria Pagliaro. ed. / Samuele Grassi; Brian Zuccala. Vol. 66 Italy: Firenze University Press, 2022. p. 89-111 (Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna; Vol. 66).

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