TY  - GEN
T1  - Addressing the letter : Italian women writers' epistolary fiction
T2  - Toronto Italian studies.
A1  - Salsini, Laura A. (Laura Anne)
LA  - English
LA  - Italian
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn759157271
AB  - "Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels purposely tie narrative structure to thematic content, creating in the process powerful texts that reflect and challenge literary and socio-cultural norms. Through the lens of the genre, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology. She also analyses what may be the first woman-authored Italian example of epistolary fiction: Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati's Lettere di Giulia Willet (1818). In their reworking of the epistolary narrative form, Italian women writers challenged dominant assumptions about female behaviours, roles, relationships, and sexuality in modern Italy"--Publisher description.
OP  - 190
CN  - PQ4181.E65 S35 2010eb
SN  - 9781442687233
SN  - 1442687231
SN  - 9781442641655
SN  - 1442641657
KW  - Epistolary fiction, Italian : History and criticism.
KW  - Italian fiction : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Italian fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Italian fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Sex role in literature.
KW  - Women in literature.
KW  - Gender identity in literature.
KW  - Women and literature : Italy : History : 19th century.
KW  - Women and literature : Italy : History : 20th century.
KW  - Roman italien : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman italien : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
KW  - Femmes dans la littérature.
KW  - Identité de genre dans la littérature.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Italie : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Italie : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Books & Reading.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : Italian.
KW  - Epistolary fiction, Italian
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Italian fiction
KW  - Italian fiction : Women authors
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Italy
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -