This work concentrates on the texts and narratives of more than 30 major operas, analyzing their cultural implications in demonstrating how they have contributed to the construction of a popularized feminine identity. It shows, for example, how 19th-century opera perpetuates a social order which requires either the death or the domestication of the female protagonist.
- ISBN10 0816616531
- ISBN13 9780816616534
- Publish Date 26 December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 209
- Language English