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Quixotic Modernists .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:08 PS PAGE1 .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:08 PS PAGE2 Quixotic Modernists Reading Gender in Tristana, Trigo, and Mart´ınez Sierra Louise Ciallella Lewisburg BucknellUniversityPress .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:10 PS PAGE3 (cid:2)2007byRosemontPublishing&PrintingCorp. Allrightsreserved.Authorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonal use,ortheinternalorpersonaluseofspecificclients,isgrantedbythe copy- rightowner,providedthatabasefeeof$10.00,pluseightcentsperpage,per copyispaiddirectlytotheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Danvers,Massachusetts01923.[0-8387-5663-8/07$10.00(cid:3)8¢pp,pc.] AssociatedUniversityPresses 2010EastparkBoulevard Cranbury,NJ08512 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials Z39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Ciallella,Louise,1952– Quixoticmodernists:readinggenderinTristana,TrigoandMart´ınez Sierra/LouiseCiallella. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN-13:978-0-8387-5663-8 ISBN-10:0-8387-5663-8(alk.paper) 1.Spanishfiction—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism. 2.Spanish fiction—19thcentury—Historyandcriticism. 3.Sexroleinliterature. 4.Modernism(Literature)—Spain. 5.Pe´rezGaldo´s,Benito,1843–1920. Tristana. 6.Trigo,Felipe,1864–1916.Ingenuas. 7.Mart´ınezSierra, Gregorio,1881–1947.Tu´ ereslapaz. 8.Mart´ınezSierra,Mar´ıa, 1874–1974—Criticismandinterpretation. I.Title. PQ6140.S49C53 2007 860.9(cid:2)3538—dc22 2006046562 PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:10 PS PAGE4 ForIdaandallthegirls. ToP.andB.,myfaithfulbookends. ToDr.B.,foreverything. .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:10 PS PAGE5 .................16041$ $$FM 10-18-0614:31:10 PS PAGE6 Contents Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 13 TheWomanQuestionandNewVisualizations 15 QuixoticAntecedentsandZonesofProverbialTactics 24 Words,Coins,andtheCarnivalBody 30 TheBodiesBehindtheShadows 36 ModernistsHomesandLandscapes 41 1. Galdos’sTristana—FluctuatingRealismand FragmentedBodies 46 BetweenDonQuijoteandDonJuan 49 WantingtoSeeandtoSpeak 63 SubjectiveLandscapes 73 HensandDoves 89 Puntossuspensivos—ASpaceforChange 94 2. TheSpirit oftheMatter:Felipe Trigo 99 ExceptionalandSelf-ConsciousHeroes:TheEngineer, thePhysician,andtheDandy 109 ThePassionateHeroandtheNatureofWomen 129 TheArtisticNatureofLove 143 TheSpiritoftheMatter 168 Conclusion 170 3. TheHeart oftheMatter:Mar´ıaMart´ınezSierra 173 QuestioningAuthorship 176 LatristezadelQuijote 181 TheMujer-nin˜a’sGardenandtheNatureofFlower Arrangements 190 OfHeart,Hearth,Home,andPeacefulLove 198 LifeasaWorkofArt 216 Conclusion 228 Conclusion 233 Notes 239 WorksCited 288 Index 299 7 .................16041$ CNTS 10-18-0614:31:15 PS PAGE7 .................16041$ CNTS 10-18-0614:31:15 PS PAGE8 Acknowledgments T OSTARTFROMWHEREITBEGAN,IWOULDLIKETOTHANKTHEFAC- ultyandfellowgraduatestudentsduringmystayattheUniver- sity of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Spanish and Portu- guese, especially my dissertation director Alda Blanco, and also Benito Brancaforte, for their encouragement from the first pages. A grant for research in Madrid from the then Center for Latin American & Iberian Studies at the University of Wiscon- sin-Madisongave memuch-neededfinancial support. I also send heartfelt thanks to my colleagues in Northern Illi- nois University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Litera- tures, most profusely to Mary Cozad for her friendship and intellectual support, including her careful, insightful reading of mymanuscript.NIUWomen’sStudiesandUniversityResources forWomenhaveencouragedmemorethantheyknow.Myanon- ymous reader at Bucknell University Press gave me the plea- sure of spending extensive and most attentive time with her exemplarycommentary,andIthank heragain. Special thanks go to Lou Charnon-Deutsch, above all for her intellectual and personal example and for her joyous, generous and encouraging spirit; she also graciously provided photo- graphs of an illustration from the State University of New York atStonyBrooklibraries.Withrespecttofurtherillustrationma- terial,mygratefulacknowledgmentalsooftheworkof:RonBar- shinger of the ILL Office and Wally Grant and Paul Allanson of the Microforms and Media Center at Northern Illinois Univer- sity Libraries; Steven Dast, and Pat Tuchscherer of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, and Sandra Paske all at Memorial Library, Madison; Donald Burge of the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico; Jana Krentz, Tyra Grant, and Michelle Curttright of the University ofKansasLibraries;andJulieGrob,SpecialCollections,Univer- sityofHoustonLibraries. Thanks also to Anne Birberick and Northern Illinois Univer- 9 .................16041$ $ACK 10-18-0614:31:19 PS PAGE9 10 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS sityforfundsforthereproductionofillustrations,andtotheAr- chivoMar´ıaLeja´rragaforpermissiontociteextensivelyfromTu´ ereslapaz.PartsoftheIntroductionfirstappearedin anarticle on Teresa Panza’s discourse and character zone, in Cervantes, Fall 2003; some information on Felipe Trigo’s work recently ap- pearedin myarticleonhis secondnovel, in Decimono´nica,Win- ter2006. Without my friends and family, this project might possibly have begun but it most assuredly would not have endured: love to my sisters Liz and Rose and their kids, to my adopted sister Paula,toOllieandBobWillis,andtoJohnandKaren,KarenB., Joan and Sandy; to Lisa, Gabi, and Danielle; to Ellen, Marta, Ian, and Jeff for their friendship and support; and to my ‘‘Illi- nois’’friendsLizandJudyforgroundingmewiththeirlaughter, encouragement, and wisdom. Last (and first), to Bruno, for my neverhavingtoknowwhatitwouldhavebeenliketofinishthis bookwithouthim,andinBandie’sspirit offlight. .................16041$ $ACK 10-18-0614:31:19 PS PAGE10
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