Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women’s texts on war.

Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain’s fin de siècle, this book examines works by notable wr...