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Cultivating Madrid
Daniel Frost
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Description for Cultivating Madrid
Hardback. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
This book investigates how parks and public space figure in attempts to envision Madrid as the capital of modern Spain. It explores the intersections between a burgeoning economy of consumption and the representation of parks, boulevards, and outlying lands in works by Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Mariano José de Larra, Armando Palacio Valdés, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, and others for whom Madrid's place in 'modern' Europe is critically at issue. To support the close analysis of literary texts, this book draws on the writings of reformers such as Ángel Fernández de los Ríos, Ildefons Cerdá, and Mesonero Romanos ... Read more
This book investigates how parks and public space figure in attempts to envision Madrid as the capital of modern Spain. It explores the intersections between a burgeoning economy of consumption and the representation of parks, boulevards, and outlying lands in works by Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Mariano José de Larra, Armando Palacio Valdés, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, and others for whom Madrid's place in 'modern' Europe is critically at issue. To support the close analysis of literary texts, this book draws on the writings of reformers such as Ángel Fernández de los Ríos, Ildefons Cerdá, and Mesonero Romanos ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482812
SKU
V9781611482812
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About Daniel Frost
Daniel Frost is assistant professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross.
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