Italian Perspectives series

Series Editors Zygmunt Baranski and Anna Laura Lepschy Series ISSN 1464-1879

In the light of growing academic interest in Italy and the re-organization of many university courses in Italian along interdisciplinary lines, this book series brings together different scholarly perspectives on Italy and its culture.

Italian Perspectives incorporates books and essay collections. It is notable for the breadth and diversity of themes covered, incorporating all aspects and periods of Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art and media, as well as studies which take an interdisciplinary approach and are methodologically innovative. The series welcomes books written in English and in Italian.

The first eleven volumes in the series are published under Maney's Northern University Press Imprint. From Volume 12, the series is published under the Legenda Italian Perspectives imprint, by Maney Publishing and the Modern Humanities Research Association. For information on recent Italian Perspecitves titles published under the Legenda imprint, or of other Legenda titles available in Italian studies, please browse the complete Legenda catalogue by clicking here

 
The Italian Perspectives series is edited by two established scholars in the field of Italian studies, supported by an international Advisory Board.

From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante (Volume 13, spring 2006)

Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s (Volume 12, January 2006)

Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples (Volume 11, January 2006) 

Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel (Volume 10, July 2005)

Fragments of Impegno: Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative, 1980-2000 (Volume 9, 2002)

Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society (Volume 8, 2002)

Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni (Volume 7, 2002)

Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood (Volume 6, 2000)

Origin and Identity: Essay on Svevo and Trieste (Volume 5, 2000)

Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written (Volume 4, 2000)

Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative (Volume 3, 2000)

Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi (Volume 2, 1999)

The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 (Volume 1,1998)
 

Series Editors 
Zygmunt Baranski, UK 

Anna Laura Lepschy, UK 
 
Advisory Board 
Percy Allum, Italy
Pietro Beltrami, Italy
Patrick Boyde, UK
Vittore Branca, Italy
Patricia Fortini Brown, USA
Victoria De Grazia, USA
Robert Dombroski, USA
John Gatt-Rutter, Australia
Paul Ginsborg, Italy
Guglielmo Gorni, Switzerland
Giovanna Gronda, Italy
Giulio Lepschy, UK
Millicent Marcus, USA
Giuseppe Mazzotta, USA
Carlo Ossola, Italy
Lino Pertile, USA
Eduardo Saccone, Ireland
Marco Santagata, Italy
Doug Thompson, UK
Rebecca West, USA