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This volume is one of few monographs on Italian post-Risorgimento author Luigi Capuana, and the first one written in English in more than four decades (since Davies 1979). Pivoting on the seemingly counter-intuitive notion of creative self-reflexivity, the volume is a rereading of most of Capuana’s narrative production beyond the ‘canonical’ verista framework that is still largely employed to look at the author and his works. The study opens with an overview of the landscape of capuanistica as it presents itself to contemporary scholars and critics. It then illustrates the methodological nuances of the notion of creative self-reflexivity and subsequently proceeds with two case studies, focusing on female characterisation and exploring ‘the margins’ of Capuana’s work, respectively. The volume closes with a ‘distant reading’ of self-reflexivity in Capuana’s entire oeuvre. Combining more traditional, historical-philological criticism with narratology and critical theory mostly developed in the Anglosphere, the volume contributes to placing Capuana into a transnational, comparative critical conversation about aspects of Italian literary culture such as issues of modernity/(proto)modernism, gender and the fin de siècle.

A Self-Reflexive Verista Metareference and Autofiction in Luigi Capuana’s Narrative