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02815aam a2200445 a 4500 001 5BBBD2326A8C11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 100907s2010 onc b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010502204 020 $a 1442641657 020 $a 9781442641655 (acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)606118997 040 $a NLC $b eng $c NLC $d DLC $d BTCTA $d C#P $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d LHU $d FDA $d VRC $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e-it--- 050 00 $a PQ4181 E65 S35 2010 100 1 $a Salsini, Laura A. $q (Laura Anne) 245 10 $a Addressing the letter : $b Italian women writers' epistolary fiction / $c Laura A. Salsini. 260 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c c2010. 300 $a x, 190 p. ; $c 24 cm. 440 0 $a Toronto Italian studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index. 505 0 $a Love letters -- Literary responses -- Making connections -- Addressing women. 520 $a "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. 520 $a 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."--Pub. desc. 650 0 $a Epistolary fiction, Italian $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Italian fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Italian fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Italian fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Sex role in literature 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 0 $a Gender identity in literature 650 0 $a Women and literature $z Italy $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z Italy $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180105040940.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825082245.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5BBBD2326A8C11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search