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cover of Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo

Las Raras

Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo

Sarah Moody

Vanderbilt University Press, 2024

Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association–Nineteenth-Century Section, 2025
Premio Victoria Urbano de Monografía Crítica, Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2025 (co-winner)
Segundo Premio, Adela Zamudio Prize, Feministas Unidas, 2025

Las Raras proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers contributed to the idea of a feminine aesthetic and tracks the intellectual networks of Modernismo through periodicals and personal papers, such as albums and correspondence. Buenos Aires, Paris, and Montevideo figure prominently in this transatlantic study, which reexamines some of the most important period writers in Spanish, including Rubén Darío, Amado Nervo, and Enrique Gómez Carrillo.

This book also considers the critiques launched by women writers, such as Aurora Cáceres, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, who experienced Modernista exclusion firsthand, deconstructed the Modernista discourse of a modern, “feminine” style, and built literary success in alternative terms. These writers reoriented the discussion about women in modernity to address women’s education, professionalization, and advocacy for social and civic improvements. In this study, Modernismo emerges as both a literary style and an intellectual network, in which style and sociability are mutually determining and combine to form a system of prestige and validation that excluded women writers.

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cover of Voyages of Catholic Thought to North America: Intellectual Networks and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe, Canada, and the United States, 1920-1950

Voyages of Catholic Thought to North America

Intellectual Networks and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe, Canada, and the United States, 1920-1950

Florian Michel

Catholic University of America Press, 2026

In the first half of the 20th century, the reputation of American Catholics was not so good. Didn't the novelist Flannery O'Connor write that their main concern was to “install central heating in holy places”? This book reveals a little-known page in the intellectual history of American Catholicism, and shows another face of transatlantic relations. “It is in the order of spirit and culture that the Atlantic community assumes its most fundamental historical importance”, as Jacques Maritain noted. Before many European intellectuals found themselves in exile in New York between 1940 and 1945, and long before the influence of “French Theory” in the United States, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, Father Marie-Dominique Chenu, Charles De Koninck and Yves Simon taught in North America between the wars and founded institutes in Toronto, Notre Dame, Laval, Princeton, destined to play a decisive role in the intellectual mutations of North American Catholicism and beyond. To trace the history of these philosophers, Florian Michel had access to archives in France, Italy, the USA and Canada.
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