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Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production is a scholarly work on Spanish religious and cultural history. It is an interdisciplinary study that offers fresh insights into political and religious changes in nineteenth-century Spain by foregrounding social experiences through historical analysis and literary criticism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
