Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature 1789-1920 [Hardcover]

Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.Introduction: The Female and Male Modern Spanish Subject PART I: DISILLUSION AND OPTIMISM IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 1. (Dis)Order: Writing Spain's Chaos in Jos? Cadalso's Cartas Marruecas and Righting Spain's Wrongs in Josefa Amar y Borb?n's Discurso sobre la educaci?n f?sica y moral de las mujeres 2. Decorum and Love in the Spanish Enlightenment: Jos? Mor de Fuentes's La Serafina and Mar?a Lorenza de los R?os's La sabia indiscreta PART II: (DIS)ENCHANTED PASSION AND CRITIQUE IN CONTEXTS OF ROMANTICISM AND REALISM 3. Masculine Extremes: The (Anti)-Fl?neur and Male Hysteric in Articles by Mariano Jos? de Larra and Short Novels by Rosal?a de Castro 4. Religion, Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of Positivism: Female Empowerment in Fern?n Caballero's Sim?n Verde and Female Uselessness in Benito P?rez Gald?s's Marianela PART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL, ARTISTIC, AND SPIRITUAL ALLUSIONS AND (DIS)ILLUSIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE DISASTER OF 1898 5. Solipsistic Inertia: Decadent Dreams in Leopoldo Alas's Su ?nico hijo and Emilia Pardo Baz?n's La quimera 6. The Spiritual Solution: Mysticism as a Means to Individual Authenticity and Optimism in Benito P?rez Gald?s's Nazar?n and Emilia Pardo Baz?n's Dulce Due?o PART IV: SYMBOLS OF (DIS)ILLUSION IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Lamenting the State of Science and Feminism: Negative Secularism in P?o Baroja's El ?rbol de la ciencia and Ambiguity in Carmen de Burgos's El Perseguidor 8. Maternal Abjection and the Death of Don Juan in Las hijas de Don Juan by Blanca de los R?os and Dos madres by Miguel de Unamuno Conclusion: Modern Spanish Subjectlsì