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Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism

Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism

Chang, Julia H.

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Iberic

Literary CriticismLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1487543018
ISBN13: 9781487543013
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Oct 6 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

In the late nineteenth century, Spain's most prominent writers - Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós - made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.


Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer played a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of blood novels, Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood's dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, Blood Novels attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race.

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