Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the Fin-De-Siglo

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús "boom" of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period's interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.

• | Author: Denise DuPont
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 16, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 341 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1611484065
• | ISBN-13: 9781611484069