Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Spain--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Women--Spain--Social conditions--20th century.

Mysticism--Spain--History.

Mysticism.

Women mystics--Spain--History.

Women mystics.

Hysteria--Social aspects--Spain--History.

Hysteria.

Feminism--Spain--History.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The first book-length study on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debate on women, mysticism, and hysteria in Spain.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Women and the Deployment of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Spain

2. Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain

3. Eduardo López Bago's Hysterics, Tribades, and Nymphomaniacal Nuns

4. La Regenta and the Cura Trilogy

5. Bucking the Trend

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780826501882

0826501885

9780826501868

0826501869

OCLC:

1259591195