{"product_id":"blood-novels-gender-caste-and-race-in-spanish-realism-hardback-9781487543013","title":"Blood Novels; Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (Hardback) 9781487543013","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlood Novels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulia H. Chang (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487543013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, Spain\u0026amp;#x2019;s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Novels \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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\u0026amp;#x2019;s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, \u003ci\u003eBlood Novels\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood as a critical analytic tool that not only sheds new light on Spanish realism but, more broadly, challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSpain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. The Colour of Blood: Racializing Illegitimacy in \u003cem\u003eDoña Luz\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e3. From Blood to Flesh: The Right to Female Pleasure in \u003cem\u003eLa Regenta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Social Blood: The Aesthetics of the Crowd in\u003cem\u003e La Desheredada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Transfusions: Queering Kinship in \u003cem\u003eFortunata y Jacinta\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e6. Coda: The Bleeding Body\u003cbr\u003e7. Works Cited\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595787202840,"sku":"9781487543013","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blood-novels-gender-caste-and-race-in-spanish-realism-hardback-9781487543013","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}