Nineteenth-century Spain

Nineteenth-century Spain

Author: Mark Lawrence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780815351061

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Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. This new history, the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years, offers a fresh perspective on this century, showing how and why elements of backwardness and modernity ran in parallel through Spain.


The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain

The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Author: Jesus Cruz

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2011-12-12

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0807139211

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In his stimulating study, Jesus Cruz examines middle-class lifestyles -- generally known as bourgeois culture -- in nineteenth-century Spain. Cruz argues that the middle class ultimately contributed to Spain's democratic stability and economic prosperity in the last decades of the twentieth century. Interdisciplinary in scope, Cruz's work draws upon the methodology of various areas of study -- including material culture, consumer studies, and social history -- to investigate class. In recent years, scholars in the field of Spanish studies have analyzed disparate elements of modern middle-class milieu, such as leisure and sociability, but Cruz looks at these elements as part of the whole. He traces the contribution of nineteenth-century bourgeois cultures not only to Spanish modernity but to the history of Western modernity more broadly. The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain provides key insights for scholars in the fields of Spanish and European studies, including history, literary studies, art history, historical sociology, and political science.


The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain

Author: Elisa Martí-López

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1351122886

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain brings together an international team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume that redefines nineteenth-century Spain in a multi-national, multi-lingual, and transnational way. This interdisciplinary volume examines questions moving beyond the traditional concept of Spain as a singular, homogenous entity to a new understanding of Spain as an unstable set of multipolar and multilinguistic relations that can be inscribed in different translational ways. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Hispanic Studies.


The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain

The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Author: David Thatcher Gies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-08-11

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0521380464

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This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course of the century. David Gies assesses this mass of material - much of it hitherto unknown - as text, spectacle, and social phenomenon. His book sheds light on political drama during Napoleonic times, the theatre of dictatorship (1820s), Romanticism, women dramatists, socialist drama, neo-Romantic drama, the relationship between parody and the dominant literary currents of the day, and the challenging work of Galdós. A chapter on the battle to create a National Theatre reveals the deep conflicts generated by the various interested factions in the middle of the century. This readable account will at last allow students and scholars properly to re-evaluate the canon of texts.


Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Author: Ryan A. Davis

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1498545270

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The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape that, though prominent sites of intellectual exploration in their day, have received comparatively less scholarly attention until recently. Fringe Discourses brings together a group of essays that seeks to restore a sense of the epistemological richness of nineteenth-century Spain. By exploring the relationship between epistemology, modernity, and subjectivity, these essays recover significant efforts by Spanish authors and intellectuals to explain human nature and their world, which seemed to be changing so radically before their eyes. In doing so the essays also reveal just how elastic the relationship was between science and pseudoscience, genius and quackery. Offering a veritable Wunderkammer, the authors collected here train their sights both on curious fields of study (from pogonolgy, the science of beards, to Spiritualism) and curiouser people (from a government spy on undercover assignment in Morocco dressed as a Moorish prince to a hypnotic huckster who dupes the queen regent). With other authors focusing on science fiction dystopias, mystical journeys, and anatomical symbology, Fringe Discourses reveals the Spanish nineteenth century for the intellectual Wild West it was.


Social Drama in Nineteenth-century Spain

Social Drama in Nineteenth-century Spain

Author: J. Hunter Peak

Publisher: Chapel Hill : Universiy of North Carolina

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This volume traces social drama in Spain from its beginnings in the works of Moratin, treats those continuing the Moratin tradition, and studies the social drama of Tamayo y Baus, Ayala, Eguilza, Echegaray, the minor playwrights, and Dicenta and Galdos.


Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Author: Magali M. Carrera

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0822349914

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How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.


Pascual de Gayangos

Pascual de Gayangos

Author: Cristina Alvarez Millan

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0748635483

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Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos's multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.It is also argued that Gayangos's scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain's Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain's national identity. In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain's greatest bibliophiles.


European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century

European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century

Author: David Spring

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1421436809

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Originally published in 1977. Professor David Spring presents comparative histories of European landed elites in the nineteenth century, covering English, Prussian, Russian, Spanish, and French landed elites. European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century underscores the particularities of each case and underscores the differences between cases.