Las Romanticas

Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain, 1835-1850

Susan Kirkpatrick

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 1989
• Print ISBN:
  9780520372047
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520335592
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

A pioneering critical work that establishes the existence and elaborates the history of a female literary tradition in Spain early in the nineteenth century, this book will greatly interest specialists in Spanish literature. It also addresses those concerned with Romanticism in general, with feminist criticism, and with the cultural history of women. Who were las románticas? The first generation of Spanish women to conceive of themselves as "writing women," they made their appearance in the press around 1841. It was the apogee of Spain's Romantic movement and of a first wave of liberal reforms, and these women gave voice to their experience as women within the terms of liberal Romantic ideology. Susan Kirkpatrick examines the textual representations that link liberal ideology, Romantic configurations of subjectivity, and women's writing, in an exciting revelation of early nineteenth-century gender consciousness. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction The Romantic Self and Gender
• 1 Spanish Liberalism and the Romantic Subject
• 2 Women Writers in the Romantic Period
• 3 Spanish Paradigms of the Romantic Self
• 4 Feminizing the Romantic Subject in Narrative: Gómez de Avellaneda
• 5 Modulating the Lyre: Gómez de Avellaneda’s Poetry
• 6 Waterflower
• 7 Denying the Self
• 8 Conclusion
• Appendix Texts of Poems Not Available in Twentieth-Century Editions
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index