Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

ISBN: 0226768651

Author: de Zayas y Sotomayor, Mar

Condition: New

At the height of María de Zayass popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayass signature topics-gender equality and domestic violence-written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayass entire body of stories, and restores Zayass authors note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to loves treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.