Marginal Subjects : Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain /

"Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman--and her counterpart, the feminized...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsuchiya, Akiko, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in literature.
Spanish fiction.
Outsiders in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Deviant behavior in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Étrangers dans la litterature.
Deviance dans la litterature.
Homosexuels masculins dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Roman espagnol > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Strangers in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Spanish fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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