Quixotic modernists: reading gender in Tristana, Trigo and Martínez Sierra

The woman question and new visualizations -- Quixotic antecedents and zones of proverbial tactics -- Words, coins, and the carnival body -- The bodies behind the shadows -- Modernists homes and landscapes -- Galdos's Tristana-fluctuating realism and fragmented bodies -- Between Don Quijote and Don Juan -- Wanting to see and to speak -- Subjective landscapes -- Hens and doves -- Puntos suspensivos-a space for change -- The spirit of the matter: Felipe Trigo -- Exceptional and self-conscious heroes: the engineer, the physician and the dandy -- The passionate hero and the nature of women -- The artistic nature of love -- The spirit of the matter -- The heart of the matter: María Martínex Sierra -- Questioning authorship -- La tristeza del Quijote -- The Mujer-niña's garden and the nature of flower arrangements -- Of heart, hearth, home, and peaceful love -- Life as a work of art.