Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men

by Margaret Rich Greer

Book Overview

Mar?a de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desenga?os amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her "scandalous" works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102822X
• ISBN13: 9780271028224
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"