Performing Bodies : Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920).

By:

Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781683931324

Subject(s):

Sick in literature

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performing BodiesDDC classification:

850.9/3522

LOC classification:

PQ4055.W6 .R367 2018

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Denigrated Femininity in Fin de Siècle Italy -- 2 Female Malady and Transgression in Italian Literature -- 3 Feigning Sickness and Female Agency in Italian Literature -- 4 Tigre reale and Malombra -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

Summary: This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to "own" the illness and become masters of their bodies as well as their stories and destinies.

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This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to "own" the illness and become masters of their bodies as well as their stories and destinies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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