Modern literatures in Spain /

"Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country's cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures -...

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Main Authors: Labanyi, Jo (Author), Delgado, Luisa Elena (Author), Buffery, Helena (Author), Hooper, Kirsty (Author), Olaziregi, Mari Jose (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2023.
Series:Cultural history of literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernity and the singular nation (1700-1840s)
  • From sensibility to desire: the contruction of the modern subject (1730s-1840s)
  • The rise of the public sphere and the professionalization of the writer (1730s-1890s)
  • Countering Castilian: from retrenchment to the Renaissance of peripheral national literatures (1710s-1890s)
  • The uses of the past: writing the nation (1760s-1890s)
  • Popular culture: exclusion and appropriation (1760s-1930s)
  • Urban modernity and the provincial: changing concepts of time and space (1830s-1930s)
  • The nation called into question (1890s-1920s)
  • Writers and political commitment (1930s-1960s)
  • Spain beyond Spain: exile and diaspora (1939-1980s)
  • Catalan, Galician, and Basque literatures: recovery and institutionalization (1960s-1990s)
  • Rewriting gender and sexuality (1970s-2020)
  • Memory and forgetting (1970s-2020)
  • Normalization, crisis, and the search for new paradigms (1975-2021).