{"product_id":"blood-novels-9781487543013","title":"Blood Novels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers  Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós  made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Novels \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer played a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of blood novels, Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood’s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, \u003ci\u003eBlood Novels\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood as a critica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction 2. The Colour of Blood: Racializing Illegitimacy in Doña Luz 3. From Blood to Flesh: The Right to Female Pleasure in La Regenta 4. Social Blood: The Aesthetics of the Crowd in La Desheredada 5. Transfusions: Queering Kinship in Fortunata y Jacinta 6. Coda: The Bleeding Body 7. Works Cited\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409162740055,"sku":"9781487543013","price":45.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487543013.jpg?v=1730505701","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-novels-9781487543013","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}