Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - Softcover

De Zayas Y Sotomayor, Marķa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226768651 ISBN 13: 9780226768656

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Synopsis

At the height of Marķa 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.

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About the Author

Margaret R. Greer is professor of Spanish at Duke University. She is the author or editor of many books, including the coeditor ofRereading the Black Legend, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Elizabeth Rhodes is associate professor of Hispanic studies at Boston College. She is the author, most recently, ofThis Tight Embrace: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566–1614).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226768651
• ISBN 13: 9780226768656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400