New number received from: JOURNAL OF SPANISH CULTURAL STUDIES (vol. 10, nº 4. December 2009)

Summary of this issue:

SPECIAL ISSUE: “LA BAD LIFE” EDITED BY RICHARD CLEMINSON AND TERESA FUENTES PERIS

*"La Mala Vida": Source and Focus of Degeneration, Degeneracy and Decline. Richard Cleminson and Teresa Fuentes Peris

*The classification of the diffuse: The concept of "bad life" in the criminological literature of the turn of the century. Ricardo Campos

*The children of the "bad life": The pathology of the "gulf" in the Spain of entrecenturies. Raphael Huertas

*The cornerstone (1891) of "the bad life": Emilia Pardo Bazán and the crisis of criminal law. Pure Fernandez

*Transnational Discourse on the “la mala vida”: Male Homosexuality in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Barcelona in the Early Twentieth Century. Richard Cleminson

*Alcoholism, anarchism and degeneration in La bodega by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Theresa Fuentes-Peris  

REVIEW ARTICLES

*Pura Fernandez and Marie-Linda Ortega. The woman of letters or the wounded letter. Discourses and representations about women writers in the 2008th century (Madrid: CSIC, XNUMX). Beatriz Ferrus

* Jorge Uria. Liberal Spain (1868-1917). Culture and daily life (Madrid: Editorial Síntesis, 2008). jesus cross

*Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Alfredo Martínez-Expósito. Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (London: IB Tauris, 2007). Jose Arroyo

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