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Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire
Michael Iarocci
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Traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. This book points out that it has been an assumption tainting literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement. Num Pages: 296 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. He points out that it has long been an unspoken assumption tainting much of literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement, even though Spain itself had come to be viewed by the ""new"" Europe as the location of all that was Romantic. Through a close study of Cadalso, Saavedra, and Larra, Iarocci argues that Spanish writers were intensely concerned with ... Read more
Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. He points out that it has long been an unspoken assumption tainting much of literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement, even though Spain itself had come to be viewed by the ""new"" Europe as the location of all that was Romantic. Through a close study of Cadalso, Saavedra, and Larra, Iarocci argues that Spanish writers were intensely concerned with ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515216
SKU
V9780826515216
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About Michael Iarocci
Michael Iarocci is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley and the author of Enrique Gil y la genealogia de la lirica moderna.
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