Abstract
This article explores the Madrid of Eduardo López Bago’s Prostituta tetralogy through his construction of social illness by means of olfaction. Contrary to the expected Naturalist ascription of negative odors to the body of the prostitute, López Bago codes her positively, placing the locus of social illness instead in the sensory construction of powerful male characters. Inverting the gendering of pathologized, societally fraught morality in this way both complicates the current critical discourse about gender representation and construction in finisecular Spain and suggests López Bago as an author meriting further and more focused examination by scholars of this critical period in peninsular literature.
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