Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Chapter 1 Zayas: Her Life and Times 1
7. Chapter 2 Exemplary Tales of Love: A Contradiction? 22
8. Chapter 3 Settings, Styles and Models: Zayas’s Literary Context 45
9. Chapter 4 Turning the Tables on Men in Exemplary Tales of Love 61
10. Chapter 5 Bodies in Pain: Tales of Disillusion 79
11. Chapter 6 Identifying the Subject 93
12. Chapter 7 I Believe: Religion, Magic, the Supernatural 117
13. Chapter 8 Zayas on Women 143
14. Conclusion Zayas’s Afterlives 160
15. Appendix Plot Summaries 179
16. Bibliography 199
17. General Index 211
18. Index of Zayas’s Works 219