Pardo Bazán, Emilia

This dissertation analyzes three types of texts (essays, religious studies, fiction) to illustrate Pardo Bazán's original construction of a Christian feminist model. The first chapters examine her initial efforts to combat the “ángel del hogar” bourgeois stereotype in her essays…

This dissertation analyzes the uses of illness in Spanish women's literary and non-literary writings from 1880–1920. Two opposing trends were at work during this period. On the one hand, cultural esthetics privileged sickly, pale, and inactive women. On the other hand, the hygie…