Women writers in the Spanish Enlightenment
Subtitle: the pursuit of happiness
By: Elizabeth Franklin Lewis.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world; Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Amar y Borbón, Josefa, -- b. 1749 -- Criticism and interpretation; Gálvez, María Rosa, -- 1768-1806 -- Criticism and interpretation; Horé, María Gertrudis, -- 1742-1801 -- Criticism and interpretation; Spanish literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Spain; Feminism in literature; Happiness
Description: "Beginning with a brief examination of the importance of the concept of happiness to the European Enlightenment as well as to the growing eighteenth-century interest in women, especially in Spain, this study focuses on the literary expressions of happiness by Spanish women as exemplified in the writings of three authors: essayist Josefa Amar y Borbon, poet Maria Gertrudis Hore and playwright Maria Rosa Galvez."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pursuit of happiness; title: Theorizing feminine happiness : Josefa Amar y Borbón and the enlightenment of Spanish women; title: Situating feminine happiness : María Gertrudis Hore's ascent to the sacred Parnassus; title: Crying out for feminine (un)happiness : María Rosa Gálvez's search for Sapphic immortality; title: The pursuit of happiness continues.