2. The Epistemology of the Young Woman: Analysis and Revelation in Three Fin-de-siècle Novels

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “A Somewhat Unusual Nun”: Writing Gender in I promessi sposi 28
6. 2. The Epistemology of the Young Woman: Analysis and Revelation in Three Fin-de-siècle Novels 56
7. 3. The Mule and the Ghost: Gender, Realism, and the Fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi 90
8. 4. Intellectual Experiments: The Philosopher and the Housewife 113
9. 5. A Poetics of Rejection: Elsa Morante and the Gender of the Real 145
10. Conclusion 175
11. Notes 183
12. Works Cited 213
13. Index 229