The Rape-Revenge Plot as a Reading of María de Zayas and Ana Caro de Mallén in Herminia Luque's Amar tanta belleza (2015).
This article analyzes Herminia Luque’s 2015 novel *Amar tanta belleza*, which reinterprets the works and legacies of seventeenth-century Spanish women writers Ana Caro de Mallén and María de Zayas through a rape-revenge narrative framework. The novel uses this plot device to explore the pervasive ra...
| Publicado en: | Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 89 - 107 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Jun2026
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