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<P>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.</P> <P><I>Blood Novels </I>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, <I>Blood Novels</I> attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race.</P> <P>Critically 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<I> </I>Spain. </P>

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Author

Julia H. Chang

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487543020

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism