Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 244 pages

Christine Arkinstall's historical and literary study of female freethinking intellectuals in fin-de-siècle Spain examines the contributions of three intellectuals, Amalia Domingo Soler, Angeles López de Ayala, and Belén Sárraga, to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy. These women wrote for, edited, and published radical and feminist periodicals that, until now, have been left unstudied. This significant gap in the scholarship has left us without an accurate sense of Spanish women's involvement in the public realm.

Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879 1926 recovers the lost history and literary contributions these women made to the so-called Generation of 1898. Using their extensive published works, Arkinstall not only illuminates the lives of Domingo Soler, López de Ayala, and Sárraga, but traces the connections between feminism, freethinking, republicanism, freemasonry, anarchism, and socialism. By placing these women's work in the broader literary, social, and political context of the period, Arkinstall's study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the central role of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century democracy in Spain.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
Spiritism Feminism and an Aesthetics of Emancipation in the Writings of Amalia Domingo Soler 18351909
23
Ángeles López de Ayala 18561926
61
López de Ayalas Literary Works
103
The Sociopolitical Poetics of Belén Sárraga ca 18731950
139
Final Reflections
189
Notes
199
Works Cited
225
Index
237
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Christine Arkinstall is a professor of Spanish at the University of Auckland.

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