Gender Meets Genre Woman As Subject in the Fictional Universe of Matilde Serao

Name: Gender Meets Genre Woman As Subject in the Fictional Universe of Matilde Serao
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ISBN: 9780716526025

ISBN-10: 0716526026

ISBN-13: 9780716526025

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ursula Fanning

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This book provides a detailed analysis of the fiction of a Neopolitan novelist and journalist whose work spanned the turn of the last century, and widely translated, was in her own lifetime, the object of both critical and popular acclaim.

Book details

List price: $49.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Publication date: 1/31/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Matilde Serao in Context


Women's Position in Italian Society, 1860-1930



Roles and Images



Women in Love: Romance Revisited


The Angelic Woman in Love


The Monstrous Woman or Femme Fatale


Variations



Mothers and Mothering: Icons Shattered


Progression and Development


Madonna, Virgin/Mother


The Maternal "Negative"



Working Women: Entering New Territories


Women of the Proletariat: Vistas of Poverty


Women of the Middle Class: Realities and Fictions


Alternative Activities



Gender and Genre



Sentimental Subversions: Female Friendship


The Location of Women's Friendship in Serao's Novels


Hidden Meanings: What the Subtext Says


Serao's Commonest Locus of Female Friendship: The Heterosexual Love Relationship and the "Lesbian Subtext"


The Heterosexual Love Relationship, the Lesbian Subtext and the Female Double


Female Friendship in Isolation from the Heterosexual Bond: Alternative Social Groupings


The Religious Community



Gothic Re-Visions


Female Gothic


Serao's Use of the Gothic


Domestic/Romantic/Sentimental/Realist/Gothic


Pure Gothic


The Gothic Conclusion


Bibliography


Index of References to Serao's Works


Index of Names