ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to show how the genre of the fantastic represents a similar opportunity for other Italian female writers. It is one they may rise to in a variety of ways, bringing into that meeting a host of different generic sediments and inter-textual references. The fantastic provides women writers with an opportunity to explore and resolve a spatially conceived anxiety about their place in literature. The book describes a new practice of the fantastic, by eschewing the concept of the margins that bedevils literary criticism of women's writing, and attempting to invent new ways of reading their work. It shows that the particular inter-textual anxiety is explored through the fantastic mode; it would be useful to turn to other forms of female authored fiction with the troubling question as to how women may be engaging with a history of artistic subordination.
