Sharon Wood is professor emerita of Italian at the University of Leicester.Erica Moretti is assistant professor of Italian at Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY.

The academic rigor and the plurality of viewpoints of this edited collection serve well to offer scholarly readership a composite account of Vivanti’s polyhedric personality and writings. Firmly and stimulatingly engaging with the multiple cultural networks and contexts of Italy and beyond, this timely volume facilitates a full reappraisal of a key cultural figure of turn-the-century Italy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI: Constructing a Female Self 1Ogres and Belles: Vivanti, Carducci, and Mentorship in Post-Unification ItalyOmbretta Frau2Performing Femininities: Singers, Sirens and MothersUrsula Fanning3 From Circe to Fosca: Annie Vivanti and the Femme FataleJulie Dashwood4War Rape and Hybrid BirthCristina GragnaniII: Translation and Cultural Mediation5Annie Vivanti’s Transatlantic CrossingsMariarosa Mettifogo6A ‘Mistaken’ Choice of Language? A Case of Self-TranslationMarianna Deganutti7Dominance and Subversion in Annie Vivanti’s “Tenebroso Amore”Sara CeroniIII: Political Engagement and Journalism8Annie Vivanti, Journalist and CriticAnne Urbancic9A Literary Collaboration: Annie Vivanti and Corriere della SeraErica Moretti10Annie Vivanti and the Struggle for Irish IndependenceChiara Chini11“La grande divoratrice:” Annie Vivanti’s Friendship with Barbara Allason (1917–1921)Noemi Crain MerzIV: Vivanti Across Literary Genres