Azariah Alfante

Making Modern Spain

Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

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Produktbeschreibung

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781684484959
• ISBN-10: 1684484952
• Artikelnr.: 67616012

Autorenporträt

AZARIAH ALFANTE teaches Spanish language and literature at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has published on nineteenth-century Spanish and Philippine writing and history.

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List of Illustrations
Note on Orthography
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Modern Matter: Disentailment and the Religious Question
Chapter 2: At the Heart of the Nation: Domestic Wellbeing and Spiritual
Patrimony in Cecilia Böhl de Faber’s La gaviota (1849), La familia de
Alvareda (1856), Callar en vida y perdonar en muerte (1856), and Lágrimas
(1862)
Chapter 3: The Hallowed, the Haunting: Remembering and Restoring the Sacred
Precinct in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Historia de los templos de España
(1857), Cartas desde mi celda (1864), and Leyendas (1858-1864)
Chapter 4: A New Vital Force: Reconstructing Spain’s Spiritual Body in
Benito Pérez Galdós’s Doña Perfecta (1876), Gloria (1877), Mendizábal
(1898), and Montes de Oca (1900)
Chapter 5: The Abyss and the Mount: Questions of Faith, Family, and
Tradition in José María de Pereda’s El Tío Cayetano (1858-1859), Blasones y
talegas (1869), De tal palo, tal astilla (1880), and Sotileza (1884)
Final Reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Index