Blood Novels : : Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism / / Julia H. Chang.

In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction. Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Toronto Iberic
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Realism’s Blood
  • Chapter One. The Colour of Blood: Racializing Illegitimacy in Doña Luz
  • Chapter Two. From Blood to Flesh: Avowing Material Pleasure in La Regenta
  • Chapter Three. Social Blood: The Aesthetics of the Crowd in La desheredada
  • Chapter Four. Transfusions: Queering Kinship in Fortunata y Jacinta: Dos historias de casadas
  • Coda: The Bleeding Body
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index