Marginal Subjects

Akiko Tsuchiya is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University.

‘Impeccably researched and illuminating study of representations of gender deviance in late nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture… Marginal Subjects is an outstanding piece of scholarship and required reading for specialists in nineteenth-century Peninsular literature and culture, particularly those concerned with questions of gender.’ - Jennifer Smith (Anales Galdosianos; vol 47:2012) ‘The book also stands out for the thoroughness of the 'close readings' that brilliantly combine literary and cultural analysis, all of which is rendered in a prose that is both precise and elegant ... The author's reading always enriches the myriads of interpretation that are possible for each text.’ - Toni Dorca, Revista Canadiense de Estudios HispÁnicos 36.3 (2012) ‘Tsuchiya’s excellent study makes a thorough use of primary sources relating to nineteenth-century prostitution, hygiene, and other issues that impacted social perceptions of gender deviancy in nineteenth-century European society.’ - Lou Charnon-Deutsch (Hispanic Review: winter 2012) ‘Marginal Subjects constitutes an essential contribution to studies on Spanish modernity and is indispensable to specialists in Peninsular culture, gender studies and the nineteenth-century novel….Rare are books that offer academic and theoretical rigor, at the same time as the pleasure of a provocative reading which the reader faces under Akiko Tsuchiya's pen.’- Vialette, AurÉlie (Revista de Literatura (Madrid). Vol. 75: 149: 2013) ‘Tsuchiya’s style of writing is lucid, devoid of jargon, and negotiates the complicated steps from text to context with precision and finesse…This book will be indispensable to teaching and to research on the literature and culture of late nineteenth century Spain.’- Harriet S. Turner (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies Volume 16, 2012)

• AcknowledgmentsCreditsNotes on the TranslationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction:  Discourses on Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain The Deviant Female Body Under Surveillance: GaldÓs´s La desheredada “Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro”: Discipline and Resistance in Fortunata y JacintaConsuming Subjects:  Female Reading and Deviant Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain Gender Trouble and the Crisis of Masculinity in the fin-de-siglo: ClarÍn’s Su Único hijo and Pardo BazÁn’s Memorias de un solterÓnGender, Orientalism, and the Performance of National Identity in Pardo BazÁn’s InsolaciÓnTaming the Prostitute’s Body: Desire, Knowledge, and the Naturalist Gaze in LÓpez Bago’s La prostituta seriesFemale Subjectivity and Agency in Matilde Cherner’s MarÍa Magdalena ConclusionWorks Cited