Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel

Name: Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel
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ISBN: 9780198160090

ISBN-10: 0198160097

ISBN-13: 9780198160090

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jo Labanyi

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This new interdisciplinary study argues that the late-nineteenth-century Spanish realist novel not only documents but also forms part of the contemporary nation-formation process. Drawing on a wide range of recent cultural theory from largely English- and French-language sources, it relates their insights to contemporary Spanish debates in the fields of economics, politics, medicine and town planning, showing that the cultural anxieties dominant in other western nations at the time found acute expression in Spain precisely because of the imperfect nature of the modernization process. In particular the book studies the ways in which women function in canonical Spanish realist texts as a…

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List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188

Introduction: Writing the Nation	p. 1
Redefining the Public and Private Spheres
Liberal Political Theory: Freedom and the Market	p. 31
The Construction of 'the Social': Reform and Regulation	p. 52
The Urban Novel: Female Adultery and the Exchange Economy
Mapping the City: Galdos's La familia de Leon Roch (1879), La desheredada (1881), Lo prohibido (1884-1885)	p. 91
Excess and the Problem of Limits: Galdos's Tormento (1884) and La de Bringas (1884)	p. 139
The Consumption of Natural Resources: Galdos's Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-1887)	p. 165
Pathologizing the Bodily Economy: Alas's La Regenta (1884-1885)	p. 209
The Rural Novel: Husbandry or Keeping it in the Family
Making Caciquismo Respectable: Valera's Pepita Jimenez (1874)	p. 265
Patriarchy without the State: Pereda's Penas arriba (1895)	p. 299
Problematizing the Natural: Pardo Bazan's Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886) and La madre naturaleza (1887)	p. 337
Conclusion: Modernity and Representation	p. 385
References	p. 417
Index	p. 453
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