TY - BOOK AU - DuPont,Denise TI - Writing Teresa: the saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo SN - 9781611484076 (electronic bk.) AV - PQ6073.T45 D87 2012eb U1 - 860.9/006 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lewisburg [Pa.], Lanham, Md. PB - Bucknell University Press, Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group KW - Teresa, KW - Spanish literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Christian hagiography in literature KW - Mysticism and literature KW - Spain KW - Literatur KW - gnd KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese KW - bisacsh KW - Spanien KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=588447 ER -