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Aphra Behn’s Sentimental History: The Case Study of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688)
Villegas López, Sonia
(Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas, 2004-12)
After the decline in theatregoing which followed the Popish Plot in 1678, Aphra Behn adhered to the general tendency among many authors of her time and turned to novel writing. Agnes de Castro is her own rendering of ... -
La construcción genérica de lo femenino en la narrativa anglófona contemporánea de contenido religioso
Villegas López, Sonia (1999)
Desde un enfoque multidisciplinar, esta tesis propone el análisis de cuatro novelas escritas por autoras contemporáneas del mundo anglófono (tres de ellas británicas –Angela Carter, Jane Rogers y Michèle Roberts–y una de ... -
The many faces of hybridity in Chinese/American fiction of the 1990s
Cuder Domínguez, María Pilar; Villegas López, Sonia (Universidad de Sevilla, 2003)
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“Memory Lives Inside Us” : Writing as Memory Traces in The Secret Staircase
Villegas López, Sonia (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2015)
The Secret Staircase is the title given to an installation presented by Caroline Isgar and Michèle Roberts at the Foundling Museum of London in 2008, and also to the accompanying book, a collection of Isgar’s drawings and ... -
Narrative levels in The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) by Mary Pix
Villegas López, Sonia (Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas, 2003-12)
The Inhumane Cardinal is a work of transition written in the early years of the narrative tradition in England. Following the mastery of renown precedents like Aphra Behn, Pix explores the possibilities the new genre offered ... -
Of men and cyborgs : the construction of masculinity in contemporary U.S. science fiction cinema
Carrasco Carrasco, Rocío (2010)
Esta tesis doctoral se centra en el género de ciencia ficción con el objetivo de analizar tipos recurrentes de masculinidad representados en este discurso tan influyente en los EEUU. Particularmente, pretende demostrar que ... -
Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
Villegas López, Sonia (Universidad de La Laguna, 2019)
I argue in this article that in Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688) and The History of the Nun (1689), Aphra Behn forwards the connections between the feminised spaces of the seraglio and the convent, ... -
Telling women's lives : vision as historical revision in the work of Michéle Roberts
Villegas López, Sonia (AEDEAN Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 2001-06)
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Transgression and After : fathers and daughters in Susanna Centlivre’s The Busybody
Villegas López, Sonia (Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas, 1997-12)
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Truth and wonder in Richard Head’s geographical fictions
Villegas López, Sonia (Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses, 2020-12)
In line with the method prescribed by members of the Royal Society for natural history and travel writing, Richard Head explored the limits of verisimilitude associated with geographical discourse in his three fictions The ...
