Thursdays with Leila Contributor(s): Tellado, Corín (Author), Wheeler, Duncan (Translator), Holmes, Diana (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1781882444 ISBN-13: 9781781882443 Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
Dewey: 863.64 |
LCCN: 2016436585 |
Series: Mhra New Translations |
Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.34 lbs) 102 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Thursdays with Leila exemplifies the slapdash style and narrative verve, piety and subversion, timeless myth and topicality that made Cor n Tellado the queen of the Spanish romance. Of a later generation than Britain's Barbara Cartland or France's Delly, she, like them, nevertheless wrote in a society tensed between the inexorable development of modernity and a deep-rooted social conservatism. Tellado's tales of love, and of women's difficult quest for material and emotional wellbeing, clearly gave great pleasure to her millions of readers throughout and beyond the Franco years in Spain, as well as in Latin America and, in translation, in other European countries -- most notably France and Portugal.
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Contributor Bio(s): Tellado, Corin: - Duncan Wheeler is Associate Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, and Visiting Professor of the Carlos III University in Madrid. His monographs include Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain (2012) and The Cultural Politics of Spain's Transition to Democracy (2017). He is Hispanic editor for Modern Language Review.Wheeler, Duncan: - Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds and the author of many books and articles on women's writing from highbrow to popular, including Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories (2006). In 1998 she was made a Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes académiques for services to French culture. |