Writing Teresa the saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo / [electronic resource] :
Denise DuPont.
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2012.
- 1 online resource (vii, 296 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Clarín's Teresa: the faith of the mother -- Emilia Pardo Bazán and Teresa de Jesús, in public and private -- Unamuno and the Agony of Teresa -- Heroism and Humility: Azorín Writes Teresa -- Blanca de los Ríos: Teresa as Mother of Tradition -- Public and Private Teresas.
"Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús "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 Ávila 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."--Publisher's website.
Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582 --In literature. Teresa, de Jesús, 1515-1582.
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--20th century Spanish literature--History and criticism.--19th century Christian hagiography in literature. Mysticism and literature--Spain. Literatur. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese