Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship

From behind the Lines to Writing War’s Texts: Redrawing the Boundaries of War and Gender

Part One: Angels or Activists? Female Formulations of Virtuous Patriotism in Rosario de Acuna’s Amor a la patria (1877) and Blanca de los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899)

1. Love of Nation and Women’s Citizenship in Rosario de Acuña’s Amor a la patria

2. Gender, Casticismo, and Imperial Nations in Spain’s Fin de Siècle: Blanca de los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899)

Part Two: Compassionate Reason and the Monstrosity of War in Concepción Arenal’s Writings, 1869–79

3. Concepción Arenal on Charity, Patria, and Painting War’s Truths

4. The Monstrosity of War: Concepción Arenal’s Cuadros de la Guerra and Ensayo sobre el Derecho de Gentes

Part Three: Honour, Dishonour, and Getting Intimate with Empire

5. Fin-de-Siècle Female Writers: A Psychology of the Disaster

6. Disordering the Imperial Home: Blanca de los Ríos’s La niña de Sanabria (1907)

7. Purity of Blood in the National Family? Spain’s War in Morocco in Carmen de Burgos’s En la guerra (Episodios de Melilla) (1909)

Part Four: Between Feminist Aspirations and Pacifist Ideals: Carmen de Burgos’s First World War Writings

8. Reading between the Lines as Implicated Observer: Burgos’s Essays on the First World War and Women in War

9. Denouncing War’s Broken Syntax: Burgos’s First World War Novellas

Conclusion: Transforming Moral Maps, Then and Now

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