Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion

by María de Zayas and María de Zayas Sotomayor

Book Overview

At the height of Mar a de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226768651
• ISBN13: 9780226768656
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"