Degeneration is a Feminine Word: Gender and Sickness in Fin de Siècle Culture
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gender, body, sickness, Spanish literature, fin de siècleAbstract
In this paper I will analyze the relationship between gender and sickness in two novels from the first decade of the twentieth century: the unknown Pityusa (1908), written by José María Llanas Aguilaniedo, and Dulce dueño (1911) by Emilia Pardo Bazán. In the first place, I will consider the fin de siècle crisis as a collapse of the scientific rhetoric around bodies. In the second place, I will examine how, from their position in the so called fin de siècle crisis, both novels destabilize medical discourses that linked femininity with illness.
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