{"product_id":"bodies-of-disorder-gender-and-degeneration-in-baroja-and-blasco-ibanez-paperback","title":"Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterility, of European nations. In early twentieth-century Spain, the novels of P o Baroja and Vicente Blasco Ib  ez both assimilated and subverted the cultural myths of degeneration that were fuelled by influential European theorists such as B n dict Morel, Cesare Lombroso and Max Nordau. In the light of widespread anxieties about reproduction and national decadence, this interdisciplinary book traces the creative tension between each author's literary representations of the degenerate female body and the consumer agency of women readers. Through its alignment of gender paradigms and degenerationism in Baroja and Blasco Ib  ez, Bodies of Disorder offers a challenge to established hierarchies of canonical and popular fiction. Countering Baroja's resounding public disdain for his Valencian contemporary, Katharine Murphy repositions Blasco as markedly closer to the so-called 'Generation of 1898' than hitherto acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Katharine Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter. Author of \u003cem\u003eRe-reading P o Baroja and English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), she has published widely on Comparative Literature and Spanish Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51793266901280,"sku":"9781781884058","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f801a2357fdd8b465145ccb507d2cf2e.webp?v=1780717390","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bodies-of-disorder-gender-and-degeneration-in-baroja-and-blasco-ibanez-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}