Marginal Subjects : Gender and Deviance in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / Akiko Tsuchiya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsuchiya, Akiko, author.

Series:

University of Toronto romance series.

University of Toronto romance series

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Women in literature.

Gay men in literature.

Deviant behavior in literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Outsiders in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

Spanish

Summary:

"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 man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain.

Focusing on works by major realist authors such as Benito Perez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarín), as well as popular novelists like Eduardo López Bago, Marginal Subjects argues that these archetypes were used to channel collective anxieties about sexuality, class, race, and nation. Tsuchiya also draws on medical and anthropological texts and illustrated periodicals to locate literary works within larger cultural debates. Marginal Subjects is a riveting exploration of why realist and naturalist narratives were so invested in representing gender deviance in fin-de-siecle Spain."--Pub. desc.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-9517-X

1-4426-9516-1

OCLC:

755882710