“Breaking the Norms of Género: One-Eyed Homicidal Beauty in Leonor de Meneses’ short novel El desdeñado más firme (1655)

This novel, which was published in 1655 under the pseudonym of Laura Marcela, has been read by scholars either as a tale of secondary ranks of an overworked genre (Serrano y Sanz) or a narrative imbued with originality and subversive commentary (Campbell). The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that El desdeñado más firme can be read as a truly subversive project of Meneses, as she breaks both genre and gender norms through the character Lises of Toledo.
Presented by Jenny Jihyun Jeong.