Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire

Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire

by Michael Iarocci
Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire

Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire

by Michael Iarocci

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Overview

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 the same issues taken up by more famous Romantics and that the ways in which they address these issues provides us with a richer notion, not only of Spain, but of all of Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826515223
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 03/27/2006
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 genealogía de la lírica moderna.
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