Benito Pérez Galdós

Catherine Jagoe

Melveena McKendrick

Written by Benito Perez Galdos, one of Spain's best kept literary secrets and arguably the greatest Spanish author since Cervantes, THAT BRINGAS WOMAN(1884)is part of Galdos's panoramic series of novels about Madrid social life and is alsoindirectly, a novel about the revolotion in Spain.Focusing upon the Bringas household in a manner reminiscent of, and probably influenced by, Zola, it offers a shrewd and none too flattering analysis of feminine psychology and an intimateportrait of marriage.However, unlike Flaubert, Tolstoy and Alas, the other great novelists of adultery of his day, Galdos's view of the subject and its, consequences is both hard headed and humorous rather th

That Bringas Woman

The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, arguing that after 1892 the muted feminist discourse of his early work largely disappears. While his later novels have been interpreted as celebrations of the emancipated new woman, Jagoe contends that they actually reinforce the conservative, bourgeois model of frugal, virtuous womanhood—the angel of the house. Using primary sources such as periodicals, medical texts, and conduct literature, Jagoe's examination of the evolution of feminism makes Ambiguous Angels valuable to anyone interested in gender, culture, and narrative in nineteenth-century Europe.

Gender in the Novels of Galdós

Ambiguous Angels

Elsa Osorio

Vacationing in Madrid with her husband and newborn son, Luz, a twenty-one-year-old Argentinean, secretly searches for her real father, a political activist who disappeared during the country's dictatorship in the 1970s. Original.

My Name Is Light

Alda Blanco

Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca

Esta obra presenta una recopilación de textos que fueron paradigmáticos en la configuración y el desarrollo de los discursos dominantes acerca del género y de la sexualidad femenina en la segunda mitad de siglo XIX español. A diferencia de ciertas corrientes historiográficas que utilizan la literatura como fiel reflejo de la sociedad, este libro asume que los discursos extraliterarios inciden en la producción de la literatura y en la construcción del concepto de feminidad. Esta antología provee de fuentes no disponibles fácilmente que ayudan a responder algunos interrogantes como: ¿existe una diferente representación de la sexualidad femenina por parte del hombre y de la mujer?, ¿qué forma tomó la figura emblemática del "ángel del hogar" en la cultura española y cuál era su función?, ¿cuáles eran los planes de estudio para las niñas en el hogar y en las escuelas?, ¿cómo se llamaban las revistas femeninas más importantes de la época y quiénes eran sus colaboradores?, ¿cuál era la situación de las mujeres españolas ante la ley en diferentes partes de España?

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