Focusing on works by major realist authors such as Benito Pâerez Galdâos, Emilia Pardo Bazâan, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarâin), as well as popular novelists like Eduardo Lâopez Bago, Marginal Subjects argues that these archetypes were used to channel collective anxieties about sexuality, class, race, and nation. Tsuchiya also draws on medical and anthropological texts and illustrated periodicals to locate literary works within larger cultural debates. Marginal Subjects is a riveting exploration of why realist and naturalist narratives were so invested in representing gender deviance in fin-de-siáecle Spain."--pub. desc.