The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible
fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a
chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where
she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are
the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity
through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction
between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing
model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.
Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desenga?os with the age in
which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics,
the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints'
lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas's intention to
reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and
its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the
Desenga?os' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic
literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of
Zayas.
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