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.

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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Main Author: Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Madison : Lanham : The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects:
1800-1999
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian literature
Motion pictures
Sick in literature
Sick in motion pictures
Women in literature
Women in motion pictures
Italy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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