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• Published in: Biography (Honolulu) 2011-04, Vol.34 (2), p.371-425
• Main Authors: Angley, Patricia, Aranda, Lucia, Bell, Alana, Butler, Janet, Coullie, Judith Lütge, Fassiotto, Michael, Fischer, Lars, Garneau, Marie-Christine, Garneau, Theo, Kent, Noel, Peterson, Barbara Bennett, Pitts, rest R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anthologies; Bellow, Saul; Betancourt, Ingrid; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker) (1892-1973); Castles & palaces; French language; Historical text analysis; Journals (Academic); Language history; Literature; Medicine; Politics; Russian language; Sexuality; Vicent, Manuel (1936- ); Women; World history
• ISSN: 0162-4962; 1529-1456; 1529-1456
• DOI: 10.1353/bio.2011.0032

Publications reviewed include American Literary Realism, American Quarterly, American Scientist, Australian Book Review, Australian Journal of Politics and History, The Byron Journal, English Literature in Transition, Forum for Modern Language Studies, The French Review, French Studies, [Toronto] Globe and Mail, Hoy, El Imparcial, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Journal of World History, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Modernism/Modernity, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), Notes, Opera News, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Russian Review, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Studi Francesi, The Times, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), and Women's Review of Books; and from South Africa, AllAfrica.com, ArtSmart, Beeld: Manuel Vicent has written an intellectual and selective biography of Spain from the 1930s to the beginnings of the 21st century and in the center he has placed his main character, Jesús Aguirre y Ortiz de Zárate, eighteenth Duke of Alba. Because Vicent introduces his character at his birth in Santander, we are already aware from the beginning that he will become the Duke of Alba. The chapters, taken together, suggest comparisons of systems of exchange that link commoners and elite men and women through marriage, service, governance, and income-producing labor; of dynastic continuity through the (almost always male) monarch's actual and theatrical performance of sexuality; of control of sanctified and usually gendered space (harems) in the palace; and of production and regulation of culture and ethnicity.