Perfect Wives, Other Women - Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain

"Perfect Wives, Other Women" is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."--James D. Fernandez, author of "Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Visible Signs: Reading the Wife’s Body in Early Modern Spain

2. “Pasos de un peregrino”: Luis de León Reads the Perfect Wife

3. The Perfected Wife: Signs of Adultery and the Adultery of Signs in Calderón’s El médico de su honra

4. Sor Juana’s Empeños: The Imperfect Wife

Conclusion: Como anillo al dedo

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Georgina Dopico Black is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.

Product details

• Authors: Georgina Dopico Black
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2001
• EAN: 9780822326427
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2642-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Europäische Geschichte, Südeuropa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal