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It Was Customary For The Wife Of A Nobleman In Eighteenth-century Spain To Be Courted Fervently And Seemingly Forever, By A Man Who Was Not Her Husband. This Liaison, Accepted And Even Encouraged By The Husband, Was Presumably Platonic, Though That May Not Always Have Been The Case. It Was Carried On According To A Complex, If Ambiguous, Code Of Companionship And Whispered Conversation. With The Help Of A Lively Blend Of Archival Documents And Literary Sources, Carmen Martín Gaite Admits Us To The Intricacies Of The Code And Unravels Its Significance For The Women Who Enjoyed The Attention Of A Cortejo, Or Escort. Why Was The Cortejo Tolerated, By Society And By The Woman's Aristocratic Family, Even Though It Infringed Traditional Religious Precepts? What Did Woman And Her Friend Talk About At Such Length? Was Their Flirtation Intellectual, Reflecting The Effects Of Enlightenment Rationalism On Spanish Culture? Letters, Memoirs, And Travel Journals As Well As Dramatic Works Of The Period Offer Invaluable Clues To The Nature Of These Relationships, In Which The Woman Was Almost Ritually Adored And Placed On A Pedestal. The Conversation, We Learn, Was Generally Frivolous, Focusing On

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Author

Gaite, Carmen Martin

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585307619

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Health & Fitness, Folklore

Updated

2026-03-24