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

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Denigrated Femininity in Fin de Siècle Italy
Chapter Two: Female Malady and Transgression in Italian Literature
Chapter Three: Feigning Sickness and Female Agency in Italian Literature
Chapter Four: Tigre reale and Malombra: The Diva and Cinematic Adaptations of Female Illness
Conclusion
References
About the Author

About the author

By Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2017
• EAN: 9781683931317
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-131-7
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 375 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama