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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786479203321

Autore

Mercer Leigh <1971->

Titolo

Urbanism and urbanity [[electronic resource] ] : the Spanish bourgeois novel and contemporary customs (1845-1925) / / Leigh Mercer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lewisburg, PA] ; ; Lanham, MD, : Bucknell University Press, : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2013

ISBN

1-283-84710-8

1-61148-389-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

863/.509355

Soggetti

Middle class in literature

Spanish fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Manners and customs in literature

Social values in literature

City and town life in literature

Group identity in literature

Literature and society - Spain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: All the World's Her Stage: The Museum and the Theater; Chapter Two: Consuming Desires: The Boutique and the Promenade; Chapter Three: The Games Men Play: The Stock Market and the Casino; Chapter Four: Fields of Honor: Political Clubs, Congress, and Dueling Grounds; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Urbanism and Urbanity is a groundbreaking cultural history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century bourgeois public sphere in Spain. It analyzes the literary representation and construction of gender-based social rituals inscribed onto the map of modern Spanish cities. Addressing novels from Realism to Modernism as documents of customs in dialogue with urban treatises, conduct manuals, and city guides, the book presents a comprehensive picture of the discursive generation of the Spanish urban middle class.