La Tribuna (Hardcover)

Emilia Pardo Bazan was born in the Galician town of A Coruna into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Release date:	July 2017
Editors:	Graham Whittaker
Dimensions:	210 x 147 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	442
ISBN-13:	978-1-78694-025-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	1-78694-025-6
Barcode:	9781786940254

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