{"product_id":"blood-novels-gender-caste-and-race-in-spanish-realism-hardcover-1","title":"Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia H. Chang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\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'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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703712346419,"sku":"9781487543013","price":143.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/N2lMRjVlSzJkNjgrcXE3MGUrSzArUT09_7eba5d10-1cdb-45a4-afc4-e96730cab804.webp?v=1763337590","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/blood-novels-gender-caste-and-race-in-spanish-realism-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}