Personajes femeninos en Margarita (1875) de Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the four main female characters in Margarita (1875), the first novel written by the Argentine writer Josefina Pelliza. Margarita, a romantic novel with a melodramatic structure, at times a bildungsroman for young female readers, can be read as an example of the transition that the literary system underwent during the 1870s, that is, from a literature with clear moralizing purposes and prescriptions about expected female behaviors in society toward a modern conception of the novel, by which the text becomes autonomous from other discursive practices.