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OverviewLate 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. Spain. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Akiko TsuchiyaPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9781442642942ISBN 10: 1442642947 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 April 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Credits Notes on the Translations List of Illustrations Introduction: Discourses on Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain * The Deviant Female Body Under Surveillance: Galdos'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: Clarin's Su unico hijo and Pardo Bazan's Memorias de un solteron * Gender, Orientalism, and the Performance of National Identity in Pardo Bazan's Insolacion * Taming the Prostitute's Body: Desire, Knowledge, and the Naturalist Gaze in Lopez Bago's La prostituta series * Female Subjectivity and Agency in Matilde Cherner's Maria Magdalena Conclusion Works Cited"Reviews'The book also stands out for the thoroughness of the 'close readings' that brilliantly combine literary and cultural analysis, all of which is rendered in a prose that is both precise and elegant ... The author's reading always enriches the myriads of interpretation that are possible for each text.' -- Toni Dorca, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 36.3 (2012) 'Impeccably researched and illuminating study of representations of gender deviance in late nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture... Marginal Subjects is an outstanding piece of scholarship and required reading for specialists in nineteenth-century Peninsular literature and culture, particularly those concerned with questions of gender.' -- Jennifer Smith Anales Galdosianos; vol 47:2012 'Impeccably researched and illuminating study of representations of gender deviance in late nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture... Marginal Subjects is an outstanding piece of scholarship and required reading for specialists in nineteenth-century Peninsular literature and culture, particularly those concerned with questions of gender.' -- Jennifer Smith Anales Galdasianos; vol 47:2012 'Tsuchiya's excellent study makes a thorough use of primary sources relating to nineteenth-century prostitution, hygiene, and other issues that impacted social perceptions of gender deviancy in nineteenth-century European society.' -- Lou Charnon-Deutsch Hispanic Review: winter 2012 Author InformationAkiko Tsuchiya is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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