Negotiating Sainthood : Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels

ISBN-13: 9781904350927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 200 str.

Kathy/Bacon; Kathy Bacon

Opis

This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture. Kathy Bacon's innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spain's three principal realist novelists: La familia de Leon Roch and Nazarin (Benito Perez Galdos, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta (Leopoldo Alas, 1884-85), and Dulce dueno (Emilia Pardo Bazan, 1911). The author challenges the conventional distinction between anti-clerical and spiritual novels by these writers, and questions previous feminist assumptions about the negative role of religion for female identity. Sainthood emerges as a key theme through which texts grapple with Spain's difficult transition to modernity."

Spis treści

Negotiating Sainthood

O autorze

Kathy Bacon