Properties of Modernity
Subtitle: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, And the Legacies of Empire
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780826515216
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Romanticism; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; 18th century; 19th century; Spanish literature
First sentence: In the closing lines of his 1990 Nobel Lecture, "La busqueda del presente" [The Search for the Present], Octavio Paz openly grapples, like others before him, with the elusive character of the modern.