TY - BOOK AU - Lazzaro-Weis,Carol TI - From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing, 1968-1990 SN - 9780812214383 AV - PQ4174 -- L39 1993eb U1 - 853/.914099287 PY - 2011///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Feminism and literature KW - Italy KW - Feminism in literature KW - Feminist fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Italian fiction KW - Women authors KW - 20th century KW - Women and literature KW - History KW - Cultural Studies KW - Gender Studies KW - Literature KW - Women's Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Feminism and Its Literary Discontents --; Chapter 2. Separatism in Literature and Politics --; Chapter 3. From Confession to Romance --; Chapter 4. The Female Bildungsroman --; Chapter 5. The Historical Novel: History as Female Subjectivity --; Chapter 6. Cherchez la femme: Feminism and the Giallo --; Chapter 7. Mainstreaming --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206708 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206708 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812206708.jpg ER -