Synopses & Reviews
At the height of Marand#237;a de Zayasand#8217;s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes.and#160; But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayasand#8217;s signature topicsand#8212;gender equality and domestic violenceand#8212;written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayasand#8217;s entire body of stories, and restores Zayasand#8217;s authorand#8217;s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to loveand#8217;s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;
About the Author
Margaret R. Greer is professor of Spanish at Duke University. She is the author or editor of many books, including the coeditor of
Rereading the Black Legend, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Elizabeth Rhodes is associate professor of Hispanic studies at Boston College. She is the author, most recently, of This Tight Embrace: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566and#8211;1614).and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Series Editorsand#8217; Introduction
Volume Editorsand#8217; Introduction
Volume Editorsand#8217; Bibliography
Note on the Translations
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I Exemplary Tales of Love
Title Page (1637 Edition) and#160;
To the Reader
Prologue by a Disinterested Person
Introduction and#160;
Taking a Chance on Losing
Second Night
Forewarned but Fooled
Fifth Night
The Judge of Her Own Case
The Deceitful Garden
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II Tales of Disillusion
Title Page (1647 Edition)
Introduction
Her Loverand#8217;s Slave
Second Night
Fifth Tale of Disillusion
Tenth Tale of Disillusion
Appendixes
A Contents of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayorand#8217;s Novella Collections
B Map of Locations of Stories
C Glossary
Series Editorsand#8217; Bibliographyand#160;
Indexand#160;