Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez

Katharine Murphy

Bodies of Disorder
Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez

Katharine Murphy

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Pío Baroja (1872-1956), Spanish novelist

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), Spanish novelist

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 26

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1 November 2017 • 206pp

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Discourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterility, of European nations. In early twentieth-century Spain, the novels of Pío Baroja and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez both assimilated and subverted the cultural myths of degeneration that were fuelled by influential European theorists such as Bénédict Morel, Cesare Lombroso and Max Nordau. In the light of widespread anxieties about reproduction and national decadence, this interdisciplinary book traces the creative tension between each author’s literary representations of the degenerate female body and the consumer agency of women readers. Through its alignment of gender paradigms and degenerationism in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez, Bodies of Disorder offers a challenge to established hierarchies of canonical and popular fiction. Countering Baroja’s resounding public disdain for his Valencian contemporary, Katharine Murphy repositions Blasco as markedly closer to the so-called ‘Generation of 1898’ than hitherto acknowledged.

Dr Katharine Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter. Author of Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature (2004), she has published widely on Comparative Literature and Spanish Modernism.

Reviews:

‘Murphy highlights the substantial points of comparison between the two authors, despite the hostility between them and their very different journeys through the literary canon. Taken in its entirety, this book deftly sets about dismantling quite a number of critical distinctions and commonplaces... This will be a valuable book for anyone working on the Spanish novel, discourses of degeneration across Europe, cultural studies, and on the dynamics of female literacy and agency.’ — Geraldine Lawless, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 96.9, 2019, 1553-55

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ix-x	Acknowledgements K.M. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.3	Cite
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1-26	Introduction Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.4	Cite
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28-51	Chapter 1 the Nordau Effect: Degeneracy and the Artist in Baroja’s Camino De Perfección (1902) and Blasco’s La Maja Desnuda (1906) Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.5	Cite
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52-74	Chapter 2 Trauma and the Origins of Neurosis: From Degeneration To the Unconscious in Two Novels of 1900 Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.6	Cite
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76-96	Chapter 3 Prostitution and Criminality in Turn-of-the-Century Madrid: Baroja’s La Busca (1904) Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.7	Cite
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97-116	Chapter 4 Crowd Psychology and the Urban Masses: Blasco Ibáñez’s La Horda (1905) Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.8	Cite
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118-136	Chapter 5 Adultery, Infanticide and Sensation Fiction: the Morality of Reproduction in Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas Y Barro (1902) Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.9	Cite
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137-154	Chapter 6 Eugenics and National Decline: the Failure of Maternity in Baroja’s El árbol De La Ciencia (1911) Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.10	Cite
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155-175	Conclusion Readership and the Legacy of Degeneration Theory Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.11	Cite
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176-186	Bibliography Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.12	Cite
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187-196	Index Katharine Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km14h.13	Cite
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Bodies of DisorderGender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez

Katharine Murphy

Bodies of Disorder
Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez