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Striking Their Modern Pose - Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdos, Pardo Bazan, and Picon (Paperback)
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Striking Their Modern Pose - Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdos, Pardo Bazan, and Picon (Paperback)
Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
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The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of
gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century
Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their
Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations
that equate female passion for finery with symptoms of social
ambition and the decline of the Spanish nation, and brings to light
the manners in which nineteenth-century Spanish novelists drew
attention to the connection between the complexities of fashionable
female protagonists and the shifting limits of conventional
womanhood to address the need to reformulate customary ideals of
gender as a necessary condition for Spain to advance in the process
of modernization. The project also sheds light on an area largely
unexplored by previous studies: men's pursuit of fashion. Through
the analysis of the richness of sartorial subtleties in Benito
Perez Galdos's and Emilia Pardo Bazan's portraits of their male
characters, this book brings forward these writers' exposure of the
much-denied bourgeois men's love for self-adornment and the
incoherencies and contradictions in the allegedly monolithic,
stable concept of nineteenth-century Spanish masculinity. While
highlighting the ways in which the art of dressing smartly provided
nineteenth-century Spanish novelists with effective means to voice
their critique of conventional gender order, the book also lends
insight into these authors' methods of manipulating sartorial signs
to explore and to envision (as in the case of Pardo Bazan and
Jacinto Octavio Picon) alternative models of masculinity and
femininity. Threading through all chapters of the study is the idea
propagated by all three of these writers that Spain's full
integration into modernity required not only the redefinition of
the feminine role, but the reconfiguration of the masculine one as
well.
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