RT journal article
T1 Mediadoras de la intimidad, negociadoras del escándalo: las domésticas en la novela naturalista radical de fin de siglo
T2 Mediators of intimacy, negotiators of scandal: domestics in the end-of-century radical naturalist novel
A1 Fernández, Pura
K1 novela del siglo XIX
K1 naturalismo radical
K1 servicio doméstico femenino
K1 prostitución
K1 escándalo público
K1 intimidad
K1 Nineteenth-Century Novel
K1 Radical Naturalism Novel
K1 maids
K1 prostitution
K1 public scandal
K1 intimacy
AB The inner workings and secrets of domestic life help form the novelesque plotsof radical Spanish Naturalism in the 1880s. In these works, the maids constitute theinvisible figure of reference due to their skills as mediators in the private lives of others,and as exhibitors of the inconsistencies and falseness of the social and sexual moralityof the times. Thus, the Naturalist novel establishes an equivalency between the state offeminine submission and the modern slavery which servitude presupposes, which oftenleads to prostitution. Prostitutes and maids share a literary destiny and in them one fundsthe weapon which is capable of destabilizing the principal and generating cell of thesocial model: the family; and at the same time, the ability to maintain it, due to thepossibility of channeling masculine desire without altering traditional monogamous order.But they also function as the door of scandal which can destroy the reputation of theirbosses as they redefine the limits between public and private life and reveal the behaviorand hidden practices of the ruling class in a type of public court which is very much tiedin with the work of the press, as the shaper of public opinion.
PB Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones y Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII
SN 2173-0687
YR 2014
FD 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/16658
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/16658
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026