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Urbanism and Urbanity

The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845-1925)

Szerző: Leigh Mercer

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Bucknell University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 14-21 napon belül

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Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this boo...

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Szerző

Leigh Mercer

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

214

EAN

9781611483888

ISBN

1611483883

Enbook ID

04838136

Kiadó

Bucknell University Press

Súly

463

Méretek

157 x 237 x 22

Teljes leírás

Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the literary means by which the social options available to modern Spanish bourgeois citizens were discursively constructed, occasionally before and often concomitantly to their production in reality. As a result, this study is concerned with the interplay of realism and reality in modern Spain. From the earliest folletines of the 1840s to the Modernist novels of the 1920s, the majority of novels written in this eighty-year period are what one might term novelas de costumbres contemporaneas, or novels of contemporary customs, and therefore primarily concerned with faithfully copying and moreover influencing real social norms in the public sphere. In these pages, I argue that the spatial and behavioral discourses in the novels of contemporary customs offer a telling history of the evolving formulation of the Spanish bourgeoisie. The linking of novels and urbanism is hardly arbitrary in the context of nineteenth-century Spain. Urbanism, particularly in the nineteenth century, was as much a verbal construction as the novel, as proven by the lengthy treatises of such prominent Spanish bureaucrats, engineers, architects, and urban planners as Ramon de Mesonero Romanos, Ildefons Cerda and Carlos Maria de Castro. For Spanish intellectuals of this era, city planning and the novel functioned as parallel, enmeshed discourses in which to work out what it meant to be middle class and the roles this class ought to play in contemporary society. In this way, they can be considered associated fields of discourse, in the sense described by Michel Foucault in The Archaeology of Knowledge. Foucault's treatise was a call for scholars to reexamine historical fields and question the historical grouping of knowledge(s) into certain discursive unities, and consider whether these might be broken up and new ones conceived. In this vein, this book undertakes a broader and more integrative view of the Spanish nineteenth century, calling into question the boundaries of fields such as etiquette and urban planning, or literature and touristic discourse.