Fe/Male Friends: Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature

Published by Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft 2023

Fe/Male Friends

Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature

Edited by: Claudia Gronemann and Agnieszka Komorowska

Volume 40 in the series La Cuestión Palpitante. Los siglos XVIII y XIX en España

https://doi.org/10.31819/9783968694283

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Although the traditions of philia and amicitia proclaim friendship as a universal concept, it has been an androcentric model until the emergence of the female friend in the Age of Enlightenment. This book analyzes the discursive turn from premodern to modern gendered constructions of friends in Spanish literature and sheds light on specific models of male, female, and mixed relationships in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Our approach reveals the gendering of male friendship through the exclusion of women and shows the crucial moment when women appear capable of true friendship. The study traces the process of transition from a homosocial bond based on a feudal notion of honor in the Siglo de Oro to new forms of affective relations in a proto-bourgeois society that promotes equality, reason and citizenship. This book spans two centuries of friendship and scrutinizes the creation of specifically gendered social bonds in literary and theoretical frameworks ranging from political writing to poetry, and from the working classes to the intellectual elites. Through novellas, novels, plays, poems, moral weeklies, and letters by female and male authors, every chapter examines a specific concept of fe/male friends related to society, politics, ethics, subjectivity, courtly culture, family and marriage structures. Thus, the book demonstrates the very act of gendering as it relates to friendship as one of the most important forms of social interaction.

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GENDER MATTERS: HISTORICAL DISCOURSES ON FRIENDSHIP AN INTRODUCTION Claudia Gronemann and Agnieszka Komorowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
STAGING FRIENDSHIP AND THE FEMALE BODY POLITIC IN EARLY MODERN SPANISH THEATER Jennifer E. Barlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
MI CASA ES SU CASA. THE GENDER POLITICS OF HOSPITALITY AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH COMEDIA OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Agnieszka Komorowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
INSTRUMENTAL FRIENDSHIP IN JOSÉ CAMERINO’S EL PÍCARO AMANTE Shifra Armon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
THE REPRESENTATION OF AUTHORITY IN EMOTIONAL FRIENDSHIPS. THE LETTERS FROM KING PHILIP IV AND INFANTA MARÍA TERESA OF AUSTRIA TO THE COUNTESS OF PAREDES Nieves Romero-Díaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
THE SPIRITUAL BOND OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP IN EARLY MODERN MONASTIC LITERATURE (TERESA OF ÁVILA AND MARCELA DE SAN FÉLIX) Agnieszka Komorowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
TWO IS ONE TOO LITTLE. MORAL REGULATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND ITS GENDER-RELATED IMPLICATIONS Jan-Henrik Witthaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
FRIENDSHIP AS CULTURAL METAPHOR IN CADALSO’S CARTAS MARRUECAS: MALE FRIENDSHIP AND FEMINIZED AMISTAD UNIVERSAL Claudia Gronemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS AND MODELS FOR FRIENDSHIP Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
SOLIDARITY, PAISANAJE, OR AMISTAD? CRUZ’S MAJOS AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING FRIENDSHIP Rebecca Haidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
“AQUEL AMOR TRANQUILO Y CONSTANTE QUE TANTO SE PARECE A LA AMISTAD Y ES EL ÚNICO QUE PUEDE HACER LOS MATRIMONIOS FELICES.” CONJUGAL FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH COMEDY AS A SCHOOL FOR MARRIAGE Claudia Gronemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft
Pages
- Main content: 270

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Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783968694283