Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism
Julia H. Chang, "Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism "
English | ISBN: 1487543018 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 793 KB
English | ISBN: 1487543018 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 793 KB
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,
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