| Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion Contributor(s): de Zayas Y. Sotomayor, Marķa (Author), Greer, Margaret R. (Translator), Rhodes, Elizabeth (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226768643 ISBN-13: 9780226768649 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $99.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: 863.3 |
| LCCN: 2008043144 |
| Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe |
| Physical Information: 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the height of Mar a de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas's signature topics--gender equality and domestic violence--written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas's entire body of stories, and restores Zayas's author's note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love's treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters. |