English Women's Literature
English literature written by women, in particular in the Romantic and in the Early Modern period. My research includes both women as authors and as protagonists of literary texts, but extends to the study of literature as a form of female empowerment, an extraordinary means through which women could make their voices heard and affirm their agency.
In particular, I focused my researched on:
Women's Romantic tragedies
Female dramatists who wrote historical tragedies, both in the field of English literature and comparative literatures (English, Italian, Spanish) of the Romantic period.
Women's theatre and drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century
Women in the theatrical environment between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century: actresses, playwrights (tragedies, comedies, farces, pantomimes, closet drama), managers e critics in the field of English literature inglese and comparative literatures (English, Italian, Spanish).
English women's Romantic poetry
English women poets of the Romantic period in England and poetry as a mean to affirm female empowerment and subvert the social order.
Currently I am also interested in:
Women and the war in the Romantic period
In particular, the incredibile figure of Mary Darby Robinson, poet, dramatist and actress, but also a real celebrity of the time and a proto-feminist who recounted the wars that afflicted the end of the Eighteenth century through her gaze and her experience as a writer with a physical impairment.
Women and madness in Romantic and Modernist literature
In particualr, the influence that the Romantic madwoman and the Nineteenth-century female hysteria had on women's Modernist literature.
Women and disability in English literature
The narration of disability, both of female writers and of characters in women writers' texts, from the Early Modern period to the beginning of the XX century.
