Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo

By Denise DuPont Southern Methodist University

Writing Teresa: The Saint from vila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jes s "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 vila 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611484065
• ISBN13: 9781611484069
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"