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Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez

Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez

Murphy, Katharine

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Book 26

Literary CriticismLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1910887307
ISBN13: 9781910887301
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Oct 23 2017
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Discourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterility, of European nations. In early twentieth-century Spain, the novels of Pío Baroja and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez both assimilated and subverted the cultural myths of degeneration that were fuelled by influential European theorists such as Bénédict Morel, Cesare Lombroso and Max Nordau. In the light of widespread anxieties about reproduction and national decadence, this interdisciplinary book traces the creative tension between each author's literary representations of the degenerate female body and the consumer agency of women readers. Through its alignment of gender paradigms and degenerationism in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez, Bodies of Disorder offers a challenge to established hierarchies of canonical and popular fiction. Countering Baroja's resounding public disdain for his Valencian contemporary, Katharine Murphy repositions Blasco as markedly closer to the so-called 'Generation of 1898' than hitherto acknowledged.

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