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OverviewTeresa, first published in 1886, is set in Italy's Po Valley near Cremona. The story relates the life of Teresa Caccia, an eldest daughter whose primary responsibilities at age fifteen include taking care of her younger siblings. When she falls in love, the union is deemed financially unsuitable and she's forced to spend the remainder of her youth caring for her family. Only when her brothers and sisters have left home can she emerge from her bleak existence and create her own life. Through Teresa and other women characters, Neera addressed the injustice of such societal restrictions in nineteenth-century Italy. Neera's narratives are noted for their subtle psychoanalytical presentation of feminine states of mind as well as for an unflinching examination of society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Neera , Martha KingPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Edition: Translated ed. Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.00cm Weight: 0.231kg ISBN: 9780810116627ISBN 10: 0810116626 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 28 February 1999 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAn excellent translation renders this dramatic feminist classic easy to read, a poignant psychological study of a conflicted young woman. --Publishers Weekly A quietly told story that gradually accumulates great power, rich in local color, memorable characterizations, and devastating dramatic irony. --Kirkus Reviews This is the first English translation of a famous feminist novel (1886), by the celebrated pseudonymous Italian author Anna Radius Zuccari (1846-1918). It's the story of a tax collector's daughter, the eponymous Teresa, whose fiction-derived dreams of romantic happiness are stifled by her family's enduring demands. Rejecting her charming suitor Orlandi, she surrenders her youth caring for them - only to find, many years after, that her eventual freedom to join the man she loves amounts simply to a continuation of her servitude. A quietly told story that gradually accumulates great power, rich in local color, memorable characterizations, and devastating dramatic irony. (Kirkus Reviews) Teresa, first published in 1886, is considered the best novel by Neera (Anna Radius Zuccari, 1846-1918), who published more than 30 books in her lifetime. Translated into English for the first time, Teresa reveals Neera to be an intelligent and accomplished novelist with an unusually high level of social awareness. Teresa is the eldest daughter of the town tax collector. She falls romantically in love with an attractive young man, but the union is considered unsuitable by her father, and she is forced to stay at home as a domestic drudge. Neera's fascinating descriptions of everyday life in the Po Valley of the time, are augmented by her subtle understanding of Teresa's state of mind, and her implicit condemnation of the patriarchal system that sanctioned such wasted lives. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationANNA RADIUS ZUCCARI (1846-1918) was an Italian writer who used the pen name Neera. Zuccari was born in Milan and grew up in Caravaggio. She published her first short story in 1875 in the publication Il Pungolo and contributed to various magazines and journals, such as Rivista d'Italia, Nuova Antologia, L'illustrazione italiana, La Lettura and L'Idea Liberale. In 1890, she founded the journal Vita Intima. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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