Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover)

Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain is a wide-ranging study of women's writing and representations of gender in Spanish literature and culture of the period. Leading scholars from the UK and USA discuss issues including women's writing and the representation of women in canonical texts from the 1830s to the 1860s, the construction of masculinity, race and region, and popular fiction, journalism, and the visual arts. Quotations are given in Spanish and in English translation.