Power and dissent
Subtitle: Larra and democracy in nineteenth-century Spain
By: Donald E. Schurlknight.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780838757314
Subjects: Larra, Mariano José de, -- 1809-1837 -- Political and social views; Spain -- Politics and government -- 1814-1868
Description: "An investigation into how Larra (pseudonym Figaro) exposes the power relations that exist between and among individuals and the classes that form "society," this work provides a close reading in a postmodern vein of the satirical writer's duly famous articles penned and published mostly between March 1835 and the summer of 1836. Casting light on the development of Larra's thought on power relations at this critical stage of his political life, this study offers a chronological, step-by-step analysis of the. evolution of Larra's thoughts on power and politics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of society : its production, its nature; title: "Un reo de muerte" and the subversion of authority; title: A trip abroad and a cuasi disengagement; title: From the political scene; title: A renewed engagement with politics; title: "Los barateros o el desafío y la pena de muerte" : zenith of Larra's liberalism; title: May 1836 : a turning point; title: Larra's "silence" and the consequences; title: Conclusion : from opposition to complicity.