Title: Women writers in the Spanish Enlightenment
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature, History and criticism, Women authors, Women and literature, Feminism in literature, Happiness
Places: Spain
People: María Rosa Gálvez (1768-1806), María Gertrudis Horé (1742-1801), Josefa Amar y Borbón (b. 1749)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PQ6055 .L49 2004