Performing bodies : female illness in Italian literature and cinema (1860-1920) / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano.
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 a...
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Vancouver ; Madison : Lanham :
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2018]
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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.