Gender and modernization in the Spanish realist novel

Abstract

Introduction: Writing the Nation I. REDEFINING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES 1. Liberal Political Theory 2. The Construction of 'the Social' II. THE URBAN NOVEL 3. Mapping the City 4. Excess and the Problem of Limits 5. The Consumption of Natural Resources 6. Pathologizing the Bodily Economy III. THE RURAL NOVEL 7. Making Caciquismo Respectable 8. Patriarchy without the State 9. Problematizing the Natural Conclusion: Modernity and Representation