Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain [Hardcover]

It is customary to regard gender roles and representation in nineteenth-century Spain as polarized and predictable. But in this wide-ranging discussion of women's writing and representations of gender, leading scholars from the US and UK not only examine the patriarchal emphasis of Spanish culture, but also demonstrate that this was a period in which relations between men and women were being constantly negotiated, challenged, and redefined as part of an ongoing transformation of political and national identities. The book ranges from the Romantic period to thefin de si?cleand all quotations in Spanish are translated.

...A cogent exploration of women's writing and wiews of gender in Spanish literature from the Romantic period to the heyday of naturalism...these essays are of uniformly high quality, and all include English translations of Spanish quotations. --Choice