{"product_id":"9781487543013","title":"Blood Novels","description":"Author: Julia H. Chang\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487543013\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Dec 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 228 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Novels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines the significance of women's blood and bloodlines in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture, advancing the study of gender in modern Iberian studies. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, Spain's most prominent writers  Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Perez Galds  made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Novels\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp;quot;blood novels,\u0026amp;quot; 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 inSpain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919573860510,"sku":"ING-9781487543013","price":131.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487543013.jpg?v=1782813795","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487543013","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}