Negotiating Sainthood

Name: Negotiating Sainthood
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels

By: Kathy Bacon

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Hardcover | 19 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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212 Pages

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This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.a Kathy Bacons innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spains three principal realist novelists: La familia de Leon Roch and Nazarin (Benito Perez Galdos, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta (Leopoldo Alas, 1884-85), and Dulce dueno (Emilia Pardo Bazan, 1911).a 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 religion for female identity.aSainthood emerges as a key theme through which texts grapple with Spains difficult transition to modernity.

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[Translation] 'Negotiating Sainthood' offers an alluring analysis of certain appreciable textual dynamics of Spanish literature from 1868 onwards. Bacon's writings are highly recommendable for those interested in the analysis of the complex socio-aesthetic connection between sexual acts, religious practices and the modern world. Inigo Sanchez-Llama, 'Literaturas ibericas: historia y critica'

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