Francesca Saggini

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Francesca Saggini


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Scopus Publications

  • XIThe Eighteenth Century
    Joseph Turner, Francesca Saggini, Dylan Carver, Ashley Bender
    Year S Work in English Studies, 2024
    This chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Joseph Turner; section 2 is by Francesca Saggini; section 3 is by Dylan Carver; section 4 is by Ashley Bender.
  • The wolf, the lamb, and the big “Oh!”: voids, (w)holes, and epitaphic emptiness in Frances Burney’s Hubert de Vere
    Francesca Saggini
    Open Research Europe, 2023
    This essay explores the character of Cerulia in Frances Burney’s dramatic play, Hubert de Vere, composed and revised in the 1790s, yet never published or staged in Burney’s lifetime. Cerulia seems to eschew any easy dramatic categorization, as she cannot be identified with the heroine of the play. Undeniably, she is a victim, but of whom/what, we may wonder? Does attempting to define the nature of the hamartia of which Cerulia remains victim lead the “ideal” reader/viewer toward either fate/the gods or, rather, social apparatuses? And, finally, what about the eponymous protagonist Hubert de Vere? Is it correct to identify de Vere as the actant “hero”, or perhaps as per the sub-category “villain hero” so popular in late eighteenth-century dramas? Burney’s adroit exploitation of tropology and literary allusion in Hubert de Vere will be at the centre of this essay. In particular, I will examine the last act of the play, where the themes of confinement, imprisonment, and escape take on tragic hues. Though unpublished until 1995, these scenes are among the most vivid and, indeed, the most shocking Burney ever wrote. It is my contention that a long overdue appraisal of female characterisation in Hubert de Vere can shed novel light –at once both disturbing and liberating– on Frances Burney’s oeuvre at large.
  • Frances Burney: A Houstory
    Francesca Saggini
    European Romantic Review, 2023
    This article maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage point of material studies, considering the houses the author lived, sojourned, and worked in. The tension between the contending discourses of “public” house and “private” house—the house as a space for entertainment and a cultural hub used to promote visibility and augment cultural capital, as opposed to the “private” house as the locus of intimacy and family life—is exemplified by the juxtaposition between the houses Frances Burney lived in as her father’s daughter (in particular the famous house at 35 St. Martin’s Street, London) and the idyllic Surrey dwellings Burney moved into with her husband, Alexandre d’Arblay, after 1793. This article will consider the symbolic, often mythopoetic value associated with Burney’s houses as artificial, cultural mythoi and her poetics of indirect, oblique association to accrue cultural and social capital.
  • Opening the Gatehouse: On and Around “Housing Romanticism”
    Carmen Casaliggi, Francesca Saggini, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
    European Romantic Review, 2023
    Opening the Gatehouse: On and Around “Housing Romanticism” Carmen Casaliggi , Francesca Saggini b,c and Maximiliaan van Woudenberg Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK; School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storicofilosofici e giuridici, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy; Humanities and Social Sciences, Sheridan Institute of Technology, Oakville, Canada; Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK
  • “Obscure Be Still the Unsuccessful Muse”: Frances Burney and the Arts
    Francesca Saggini
    Frances Burney and the Arts, 2022
  • Frances Burney and the Arts
    Frances Burney and the Arts, 2022
  • The gothic in nineteenth-century italy
    Francesca Saggini
    Cambridge History of the Gothic, 2020
  • Contextual Hauntings: Shakespearean Ghosts on the Gothic Stage
    Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 2016
  • The gothic novel and the stage: Romantic appropriations
    Francesca Saggini
    Gothic Novel and the Stage Romantic Appropriations, 2015
  • ‘Compar’d to these, Italian trills are tame’: A Century of Robert Burns in Italy, 1869-1972
    Reception of Robert Burns in Europe, 2014
  • Backstage in the novel: Frances Burney and the theater arts
    Backstage in the Novel Frances Burney and the Theater Arts, 2012
  • Housing fictions in time: An introduction
    Janet Larson, Francesca Saggini, Anna-Enrichetta Soccio
    European Journal of English Studies, 2012
  • Stages of identity: Nationhood and diversity in romantic discourse
    Rivista Di Letterature Moderne E Comparate, 2004

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Chapter XI. The Eighteenth Century: 11. General and Prose
    J Turner, D Poston, F Saggini, T Somervell, J Metcalf, H Dallas
    The Year’s Work in English Studies, maaf077 , 2026
    2026
  • Chapter XI: The Eighteenth Century: 3. The novel 1750–1780
    F Saggini
    The Year’s Work in English Studies, maaf079 , 2026
    2026
  • Silence in Eighteenth-Century Arts, History, and Philosophy//Le silence dans les arts, l’histoire et la philosophie du XVIIIe siècle
    F Saggini, D Poston, A Schoene
    Honoré Champion , 2026
    2026
  • Frontespizi e autorità in Defoe e Swift. Verità in posa
    F Saggini, F Meschini
    2026
  • “From the Top of Newgate to the Bottom”: An Album of Victorian Murderers
    R Heholt, F Saggini, AE Soccio
    Linguæ &-Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures 28 (2), 97-97 , 2025
    2025
  • Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance: by Sophie Coulombeau, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024 (“Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections …
    F Saggini
    Women's Writing, 1-4 , 2025
    2025
  • Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, Marco Malvestio and Stefano Serafini (eds)(2023)
    F Saggini
    JOURNAL OF ITALIAN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES , 2025
    2025
  • SEM16. The grammar of silence: Cross-disciplinary, transmedia echoes 16A 11 September h. 11: 00-13: 00, S8 Moro 16B 12 September h. 14: 00-16: 00, S8 Moro Convenors
    F Saggini, E Soccio
    AIA 32 Conference, 89 , 2025
    2025
  • Text Analysis and Digital Humanities in English Studies
    M Gatto, M Mahlberg, L Mastropierro, F Saggini
    Carocci , 2025
    2025
  • Textus 38 (3): Text Analysis and Digital Humanities in English Studies
    M Gatto, M Mahlberg, L Mastropierro, F Saggini
    TEXTUS 38 (3) , 2025
    2025
  • Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance
    F Saggini
    2025
  • Frances Burney: The Witlings
    F Saggini
    GBR , 2025
    2025
  • XI The Eighteenth Century
    J Turner, F Saggini, D Carver, A Bender
    The Year's Work in English Studies 103 (1), 628-723 , 2024
    2024
  • E-Burney, Green Burney, and Public (an) Burney: the" Quiet Spectator" on a London Wall
    F Saggini
    The Burney Journal 19, 28-51 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • " I am the police, pet." Adattamento e transmodalizzazione in'Vera'.
    F Saggini
    Aras , 2024
    2024
  • The Eighteenth Century
    F Saggini
    2024
  • The wolf, the lamb, and the big “Oh!”: voids,(w) holes, and epitaphic emptiness in Frances Burney’s Hubert de Vere
    F Saggini
    Open Research Europe 3, 138 , 2023
    2023
  • Dal vulcano
    F Saggini
    2023
  • [Review of] Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
    F Saggini
    Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 , 2023
    2023
  • [Review of] Megen de Bruin-Molé. Gothic Remixed. Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture. London-New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Paperback ed. 2021
    F Saggini
    Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts
    F Saggini
    University of Virginia Press , 2012
    2012.0
    Citations: 51
  • Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: From the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully, Esq., the British Consul …
    M Tully
    Henry Colburn , 1816
    1816.0
    Citations: 33
  • The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations
    F Saggini
    Pickering and Chatto , 2015
    2015.0
    Citations: 31
  • The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf
    F Saggini, AE Soccio
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 15
  • Housing fictions in time: An introduction
    J Larson, F Saggini, AE Soccio
    European Journal of English Studies 16 (1), 1-8 , 2012
    2012.0
    Citations: 13
  • Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century
    BA Nelson, CB Burroughs
    (No Title) , 2010
    2010.0
    Citations: 10
  • The Cambridge history of the Gothic/Volume 2 Gothic in the nineteenth century/edited by Dale Townshend (Manchester Metropolitan University), Angela Wright (University of Sheffield)
    D Townshend, A Wright
    Cambridge University Press , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 7
  • Transmedia Creatures. Frankenstein’s Afterlives
    F Saggini, AE Soccio
    Bucknell University Press Rutgers University Press , 2018
    2018.0
    Citations: 7
  • Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts, trans
    F Saggini
    Laura Kopp (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012) 166 , 2012
    2012.0
    Citations: 7
  • Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress
    F Saggini
    Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives, 1-30 , 2019
    2019.0
    Citations: 6
  • Contextual Hauntings: Shakespearean Ghosts on the Gothic Stage
    F Saggini
    Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, edited by Joseph M. Ortiz, 161-82 , 0
    Citations: 6
  • Miss Ellis and the actress: For a theatrical reading of The Wanderer
    F Saggini
    A Celebration of Frances Burney, 141-155 , 2008
    2008.0
    Citations: 5
  • The Stranger Next Door: Identity and Diversity on the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage
    F Saggini
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research , 2003
    2003.0
    Citations: 5
  • Frances Burney and the Arts
    F Saggini
    Springer International Publishing , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 4
  • The Art of Fine Drama: Inchbald’s Remarks on the British Theatre and the Aesthetic Experience of the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre Goer
    F Saggini
    2005.0
    Citations: 4
  • Memories Beyond the Pale: The Eighteenth-Century Actress Between Stage and Closet
    F Saggini
    2004.0
    Citations: 4
  • Radcliffe’s Novels and Boaden’s Dramas: Bringing the Configurations of the Gothic on Stage
    F Saggini
    Rites of Passage: Rational/Irrational Natural/Supernatural Local/Global, 193-203 , 2003
    2003.0
    Citations: 4
  • 3. Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, And The New Technological Frontier In Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina
    E Beal
    Transmedia Creatures, 69-84 , 2019
    2019.0
    Citations: 3
  • Introduction: The paper houses of English literature
    F Saggini, AE Soccio
    The House of Fiction as the House of Life, 1-9 , 2012
    2012.0
    Citations: 3
  • The author's secret: Disguises of epistolarity in Victorian mystery narratives
    F Saggini
    Letter (s). Functions and Forms of Letter-Writing in Victorian Art and … , 2009
    2009.0
    Citations: 3