Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the Fin-de-Siglo - Hardcover

DuPont, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611484065 ISBN 13: 9781611484069

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "boom" of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period's interest in the Saint from Avila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.

About this title

About the Author:

Denise DuPont is associate professor of Spanish at Southern Methodist University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611484065
• ISBN 13: 9781611484069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306