Negotiating Sainthood
Subtitle: Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels (Legenda Main) (Legenda Main Series) (Legenda)
Publisher: Legenda
Published: August 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781904350927
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism
Description: "Kathy Bacon's approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spain's three principal realist novelists: Benito Perez Galdos, Leopoldo Alas, and Emilia Pardo Bazan. The author challenges the conventional distinction between anti-clerical and 'spiritual' novels by these writers, and questions previous feminist assumptions about the negative role of religions for female identity. Sainthood emerges as a key theme through which texts grapple with Spain's difficult transition to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.