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Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Italian fiction --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Gender identity in literature. --- Marchesa Colombi, --- Morante, Elsa, --- Verga, Giovanni, --- 1800-1999 --- 1800-tal --- 1900-tal