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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
