Performing bodies : female illness in Italian literature and cinema (1860-1920) /

Performing bodies : female illness in Italian literature and cinema (1860-1920) / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano.

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Main Author: Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Madison [New Jersey] : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects:
Women in literature.
Sick in literature.
Italian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Italian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Sick in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Italy > History and criticism.
Italian literature.
Motion pictures.
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Denigrated Femininity in Fin de Siècle Italy
  • Female Malady and Transgression in Italian Literature
  • Feigning Sickness and Female Agency in Italian Literature
  • Tigre reale and Malombra : The Diva and Cinematic Adaptations of Female Illness
  • Conclusion.

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