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

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.