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Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press

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Description for Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press hardcover. Series: Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 320 pages, 192 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 275 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1415.

How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture.

Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or "fictions of the feminine": she reads women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear ... Read more

Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique. Many of the images collected here are available for the first time, and they represent only a fraction of the two thousand images Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research. This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271019130
SKU
V9780271019130
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Charnon-Deutsch, Lou (Professor Of Hispanic Languages, State University Of New York, Stony Brook, Usa)
Lou Charnon-Deutsch is Professor of Hispanic Languages at the State University of New York–Stony Brook. Her previous books include The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Short Story: Textual Strategies of a Genre in Evolution (1985), Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realist Fiction (1990), and Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (1994).

Reviews for Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press
“Fictions of the Feminine is a well-conceived and eloquently argued book that breaks new ground in nineteenth-century Spanish feminist and cultural studies. Each chapter forms a cohesive unit, with the illustrations, numerous and well chosen, facilitating the understanding of the overall project of the book. The thoroughness of the research involved in its preparation (over two thousand images were consulted ... Read more

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