Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaos (University of Toronto Romance Series),Used

Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaos (University of Toronto Romance Series),Used

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The noble wives in Mara de Zayas's Desengaos suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author's profemale rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desengaos with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honour code, and fifteenthcentury martyr saints' lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas's intention to reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the Desengaos' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of Zayas.

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