Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain
«Scholars of late nineteenth-century of “fin-de-siÈcle” European literature, comparative literature of this era, modern Spanish literature, and women’s studies will find much useful information about hysteria, mysticism, and the relationship between the two."
- Elizabeth Smith Rousselle, author of Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 (2014)»
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-SiEcle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. Les mer
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Author Jennifer Smith also directs modern historians to the writings of Emilia Pardo BazAn (1851-1921) as a thinker whose work points out mysticism's subversive potential in terms of the patriarchal order. The only woman author studied here, Pardo BazAn, unlike her male counterparts, rejected the hysteria diagnosis and promoted mysticism as a path for women's personal development and self-realization.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780826501868
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Scholars of late nineteenth-century of “fin-de-siÈcle” European literature, comparative literature of this era, modern Spanish literature, and women’s studies will find much useful information about hysteria, mysticism, and the relationship between the two."
- Elizabeth Smith Rousselle, author of Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 (2014)»