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Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels (Legenda Main) (Legenda Main Series) (Legenda) by Kathy Bacon is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture. Kathy Bacon's innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spain's three principal realist novelists: La familia de Leon Roch and Nazarin (Benito Perez Galdos, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta (Leopoldo Alas, 1884-85), and Dulce dueno (Emilia Pardo Bazan, 1911). The author
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kathy Bacon
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781904350927
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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