{"product_id":"mapping-the-social-body-urbanisation-the-gaze-and-the-novels-of-galdzes-9780807892985","title":"Mapping the Social Body: Urbanisation, the Gaze, and the Novels of Galdós","description":"Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid's middle class viewed urban growth with apprehension in the second half of the nineteenth century. In \u003ci\u003eMapping the Social Body\u003c\/i\u003e, Collin McKinney examines manifestations and critiques of that reaction in the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist. Drawing on a wide range of recent cultural theory as well as contemporary non-literary texts, this book provides modern readers with a metatextual map of Galdós's Madrid and Spanish society as they experienced urbanisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a century obsessed with all things visual, the map became a useful model with which the recently formed middle class hoped to reform a social body ravaged by disease, crime, prostitution, and class conflict. This study finds that Galdós's attitude toward the middle class and its mapping enterprise changes over time. Whereas his early novels depict dividing practices as reliable and perhaps necessary, his later works show Spain's social maps to be subjective and discriminatory. In \u003ci\u003eLa desheredada\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTormento\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLa de Bringas\u003c\/i\u003e the social body is mapped according to class, genealogy, gender and physical difference. Physically and morally ambiguous, the characters in \u003ci\u003eFortunata y Jacinta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNazarín\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMisericordia\u003c\/i\u003e are unmappable and thus resistant to the bourgeois categorising gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Collin McKinney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807892985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcKinney, Collin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Collin McKinney is assistant professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unc Department of Romance Studies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43128171102323,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c9783583-bd17-49b6-beb4-cde761cc48f2.jpg?v=1749732281","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/mapping-the-social-body-urbanisation-the-gaze-and-the-novels-of-galdzes-9780807892985","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}