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Author Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de, 1852-1921, author.

Title La tribuna/ Emilia Pardo Bazán ; translation, introduction and notes by Graham Whittaker
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (436 pages)
Series Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics
Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Foreword -- 2. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her life -- 3. Feminism -- 4. The social and political background: revolution and republicanism -- 5. The literary context: Realism, Naturalism and other -isms -- 6. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her works -- 7. La Tribuna -- 8. Language -- 9. Translation -- Bibliography -- La Tribuna/The Tribune -- Notes
Summary Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently
A facing page translation of Emilia Pardo Bazán's classic novel. La Tribuna heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers
Subject Galician fiction -- 19th century
Women employees -- Spain -- 19th century -- Fiction
Women in literature.
Naturalism -- Fiction
Women in literature.
Women employees.
Naturalism.
Galician fiction.
Spain.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Whittaker, Graham, translator
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de, 1852-1921. Tribuna.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de, 1852-1921. Tribuna. English.
ISBN 9781800345232
1800345232