Marginal subjects gender and deviance in fin-de-siècle Spain

Focusing on works by major realist authors such as Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarín), as well as popular novelists like Eduardo López Bago, Marginal Subjects argues that these archetypes were used to channel collective anxieties about sexuality, class, race, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tsuchiya, Akiko, 1959- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press c2011
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
University of Toronto romance series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30817080*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: discourses on deviance in nineteenth-century Spain
  • The deviant female body under surveillance: Galdós's La desheredada
  • 'Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro': discipline and resistance in Fortunata y Jacinta
  • Consuming subjects: female reading and deviant sexuality in late nineteenth-century Spain
  • Gender trouble and the crisis of masculinity in the fin de siglo: Clarín's Su único hijo and Pardo Bazán's Memorias de un solterón
  • Gender, orientalism, and the performance of national identity in Pardo Bazán's Insolación
  • Taming the prostitute's body: desire, knowledge, and the naturalist gaze in López Bago's La prostituta series
  • Female subjectivity and agency in Matilde Cherner's María Magdalena
  • Conclusion.