{"title":"Mercedes Cabello De Carbonera","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the pioneering works of Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, a key voice in 19th-century Latin American literature. Explore themes of social justice, female emancipation, and Peruvian society through her novels and essays.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blanca-sol-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9781934768013","title":"Blanca Sol","description":"A bestseller in its time with four published editions, Blanca Sol (1889) was a highly controversial novel when it first appeared. Thought by many to be a roman   clef about a well-known woman of Lima's high society, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909) distanced herself from this criticism by making substantial changes for the second edition and by including a prologue stating her intentions of writing a realist novel, a social novel, inspired in reality, but not a copy. With a well earned reputation as an outspoken feminist writer and contributor to cultural journals in Peru and abroad with essays such as  La influencia de la mujer en la civilizaci n  and  Necesidad de una industria para la mujer , Mercedes Cabello explores in Blanca Sol the consequences of social climbing, adulation, vanity, and excessive narcissistic infatuation, while also criticizing loveless marriage. The eponymous protagonist wryly declares in this regard,  marriage without love was nothing but prostitution accepted by society . The novel tells the story of Blanca Sol's move to social heights, and then her descent into prostitution. Blanca marries a wealthy simpleton to save her family from their lost fortune and maintain her social position. While she lives the life of a socialite, her husband goes into bankruptcy as a result of Blanca's lifestyle. Faced with penury, six children to support, and a husband confined in an insane asylum due to the combined effect of financial insolvency and marital failure, Blanca Sol follows what she thinks is the only road to maintain her past lifestyle: prostitution. Defiant up to the very end, she seeks to take revenge despising society  and scoffing at virtue and morality . Blanca Sol presents many of the themes Mercedes Cabello writes in her essays: pretense, excessive materialism, marriage for convenience, and women's education. The novel combines melodrama and realistic techniques to portrait the vices of Blanca Sol and examine a society that, in the eyes of the author, values gold above all. As Mazquiar n de Rodr guez points out, many critics consider Blanca Sol to be  the first naturalistic attempt at a novel to appear in Peru . Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera is also the author of the novels Sacrificio y recompensa (1886); Los amores de Hortensia (Una historia contempor nea) (1887); Eleodora (1887); Las consecuencias (1889); El conspirador (1892). Additionally, she published the following essays in book form: La novela moderna. Estudio filos fico (1892); La Religi n de la Humanidad. Carta al se or D. Juan Enrique Lagarrigue (1893); El conde Le n Tolstoy (1894). This new critical edition of Mercedes Cabello's novel -fully annotated, conveniently priced, and easily available in the U.S.- is suited for courses on 19th century Latin American literature, women studies that focus on Latin America, Latin American Studies, and literature and cultural surveys on Latin America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49683652247825,"sku":"CIN1934768014G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054594851089,"sku":"NIN9781934768013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52093595123985,"sku":"CIN1934768014VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52426184786193,"sku":"NLS9781934768013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934768014.jpg?v=1751187168"},{"product_id":"eleodora-las-consecuencias-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9781934768600","title":"Eleodora - Las Consecuencias","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403276259601,"sku":"CIN193476860XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054828519697,"sku":"NIN9781934768600","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51157255160081,"sku":"NGR9781934768600","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677880840465,"sku":"NLS9781934768600","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193476860X.jpg?v=1751414265"},{"product_id":"conspirador-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9781016138703","title":"El Conspirador...","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51014488523025,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51014490554641,"sku":"NIN9781016138703","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1016138709.jpg?v=1751142290"},{"product_id":"sacrificios-y-recompensas-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9781017877977","title":"Sacrificios y Recompensas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51015443120401,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51015445053713,"sku":"NIN9781017877977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1017877971.jpg?v=1751398617"},{"product_id":"sacrificio-y-recompensa-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9789871136391","title":"Sacrificio Y Recompensa","description":"Sacrificio y recompensa is the first Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera work ever published. Entered in the literary contest organized by the Ateneo de Lima in 1886, it earned its author the gold medal. The publication in 1887 meant for Mercedes Cabello her recognition by the Lima society as a writer, and the preliminary hints of a style and attitude vis-a-vis the society that would become exacerbated in her other writings, Los amores de Hortensia (1886); Eleodora (1887); specially in Blanca Sol (Novela social) (1888) and Las consecuencias (1890); and El conspirador (1892). There is a character in Sacrificio y recompensa, Elisa, the beautiful putative daughter of Estela's tutor, that can be regarded as the immediate precedent of Blanca Sol: Elisa was a Limena very Limena, though to honor truth, she had all the defects, without the great virtues of the women born in these fortunate places.and.she was no more than a lively girl, with an active imagination, clear inteligence and a precocious and unbriddled ambition, purely feminine ambition, to flaunt, ascend, get noticed and grow above her humble condition. The tale of the intertwined destinies of Alvaro Gonzalez, Estela Guzman and Catalina Montiel, depicted through the pen of the novelist  who] must regard and extoll as unique means to bring unto the reader's conscience the most useful and benefitial lesson proposed by the realistic school may, under the scope of the following works of Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, be regarded as the first attempt to shed light upon the feminine condition in Lima at those times. lacking other options they use matrimony to ascend in the social pyramid. Faithful to her ensuing writings on theory such as La novela moderna (1892), the author achieves in this work what she says in the foreword: stay appart from realism, as understood by today's fashionable school, and search for the real in the beauty of feelings, copying the movements of the soul, not when it becomes vile and degraded, but when it elevates and becomes noble. Sacrificio y recompensa is, thus, the best introduction to Blanca Sol and her author.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51067581202705,"sku":"NIN9789871136391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51421859283217,"sku":"CIN9871136390G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52149504672017,"sku":"NLS9789871136391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9871136390.jpg?v=1751286739"},{"product_id":"conspirador-book-mercedes-cabello-de-carbonera-9781016133654","title":"El Conspirador...","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. 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Yet, the protagonist's search for independence, her intellectual superiority, and above all, her lucid understanding of the dynamics of gender and class within the asphyxiating atmosphere of Lima's upper-crust society, transgress the limits of the romantic heroine and plant her firmly in the tradition of the naturalistic narrative. Her tragic destiny is sealed with a marriage of convenience at an early age. She discovers true love, but also deception, selfishness and the basest of instincts among those who surround her. After almost 125 years of neglect, we offer this edition of the first novel By Cabello de Carbonera, as an indispensable text for Latin American and gender studies scholars and students to explore the complex relationship the author held with the realist and naturalist movements of the nineteenth-century. There has been much uncertainty about its date of publication. It was first published in Lima in the newspaper, La Naci n, (1887), and later on that same year, in book form, by the Imprenta de Torres Aguirre. Ismael Pinto Vargas, her most recent and thorough biographer, concluded in 2003 that the novel had been published in Paris by the journal, El Correo de Ultramar, surely before the publication's demise in early 1886. His conjectures are supported by none other than the author herself in her dedication of her novel, Sacrificio y recompensa (1886) to her friend and mentor, the Argentinean writer, Juana Manuela Gorriti. 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