Lou Charnon-Deutsch is Professor of Hispanic Languages at the State University of New York–Stony Brook. Her previous books include The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Short Story: Textual Strategies of a Genre in Evolution (1985), Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realist Fiction (1990), and Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (1994).
“Fictions of the Feminine is a well-conceived and eloquently argued
book that breaks new ground in nineteenth-century Spanish feminist
and cultural studies. Each chapter forms a cohesive unit, with the
illustrations, numerous and well chosen, facilitating the
understanding of the overall project of the book. The thoroughness
of the research involved in its preparation (over two thousand
images were consulted by the author), together with her original
commentaries on these images, is indeed impressive. Charnon-Deutsch
should be commended for a superb job in combining her knowledge of
nineteenth-century history, politics, and culture (including a
variety of representational media, from ‘high’ literature to
popular magazines) with the critical insights of contemporary
feminist, psychoanalytic, and cultural theories. Fictions of the
Feminine represents the best in nineteenth-century Spanish feminist
and cultural criticism and will be indispensable reading for all
those interested in nineteenth-century literary, cultural, and
gender studies.”—Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University, St.
Louis
“Time will come when students of Spanish literature and culture
will ask the librarians of their institutions to ensure that they
have ‘the Charnon-Deutsch trilogy.’ Although not overtly billed as
being a companion volume to Lou Charnon-Deutsch’s two landmark
books of the 1990s which deal with late nineteenth-century fiction
(Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish
Realist Fiction and Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century
Spanish Fiction by Women , Penn State), this handsomely illustrated
volume forms a complementary third corner to them.”—Alison Sinclair
Modern Language Review
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