Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change : : Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder / / ed. by Jennifer Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Arkinstall, Christine,; Carbonell, Neus,; DuPont, Denise,; Ibarra, Rogelia Lily,; Johnson, Roberta,; Labanyi, Jo,; McKenna, Susan M.,; Smith, Jennifer,; Tsuchiya, Akiko,; Versteeg, Margot,; Willem, Linda M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Arkinstall, Christine.; Carbonell, Neus.; DuPont, Denise.; Ibarra, Rogelia Lily.; Johnson, Roberta.; Labanyi, Jo.; McKenna, Susan M.; Smith, Jennifer.; Tsuchiya, Akiko.; Versteeg, Margot.; Willem, Linda.
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder's invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas "Clarín," and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- PART I. Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists -- 1. Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar -- 2. Forging Progressive Futures for Spain's Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829- Madrid 1888) -- 3. Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos's Ideas on Fashion in Context -- PART II. Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic -- 4. Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Apuntes autobiográficos" and "El baile del Querubín": A Theoretical Reexamination -- 5. The Twice- Told and the Unsaid in Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Presentido," "En coche- cama," "Confidencia," and "Madre" -- 6. Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris- Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion -- 7. "A Most Promising Girl": Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán's "La dama joven" -- PART III. Representations of Female Deviance -- 8. A Woman's Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Dos mujeres -- 9. Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman's Jouissance -- 10. The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores -- 11. Female Masculinity in La Regenta -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors