Properties of modernity
Subtitle: romantic Spain, modern Europe, and the legacies of empire
By: Michael Iarocci.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Cadalso, José, 1741-1782 -- Criticism and interpretation; Rivas, Angel de Saavedra, duque de, 1791-1865; Larra, Mariano José de, 1809-1837 -- Criticism and interpretation; Spanish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Spain; National characteristics, Spanish, in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : struggling against the news; title: From the narratives of modernity to Spanish romanticism; title: Beginnings without end : Jose Cadalso and the melancholy of modernity; title: Rethinking the modern in Saavedra's Don Alvaro; title: Late Larra, or death as critique.