Torres-Pou, Joan2016-09-242016-09-242011-06-301536-1837http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/19695Stella, published in 1905 by Emma de la Barra, also known as César Duáyen, was an unquestionable best-seller and the most important Argentine novel of the turn-of-the-century. However, critics have paid little attention to the text, being studied only recently by those interested in Spanish-American women writer’s production. From a multidisciplinary approach, my article studies Stella in the context of Argentine Regeneracionismo, it analyzes the different political ideas expressed in the novel and explores the reasons behind its incredible success.esCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeArticle