Thomas Antorino Charlottesville, VA
“Feminine” Bestsellers: Gender and the Question of Modernity in the Spanish Short Novel (1907-1936) Thomas Antorino Charlottesville, VA M.A. Spanish, University of Virginia, 2016 B.A. Spanish, Loyola University Maryland, 2014 A Dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese University of Virginia May, 2020 Acknowledgements The completion of this project would not have possible without the help of many individuals. First, I am grateful most of all to Andrew A. Anderson, who advised the project, for his invaluable suggestions and guidance throughout this long process. I would also like to thank the other members of my committee, María Inés Lagos, E. Michael Gerli, and Susan Fraiman, whose edits, comments, suggestions will ensure the future success of this project. The compilation and cataloging of my primary sources has been a long and arduous process. It could not have been possible without the help, expertise, and dedication of Miguel Valladares-Llata, Librarian for Romance Languages at the University of Virginia, who spent months with me—sometimes hours at a time—combing through online databases in search of these materials. I would also like to express my gratitude to the various organizations and departments who have helped fund my research. In particular, the University of Virginia’s Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for Doctoral Students, UVA’s department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese’s Charles Gordon Reid Summer Fellowship, and the ALDEEU’s Student Travel Grant all ensured a long and successful research stay in Spain during the summer of 2019.
[Show full text]