Spain in the nineteenth century : new essays on experiences of culture and society / / edited by Andrew Ginger, Geraldine Lawless [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825823703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
• ISBN: 1-5261-3886-7; 1-5261-2475-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations
• Collana: Interventions. Rethinking the nineteenth century.; Manchester scholarship online.
• Disciplina: 306.0946
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Spain Social conditions 19th century; Spain Intellectual life 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Andrew Ginger and Geraldine Lawless -- 1 How (not) to make a durable state / Natalia Sobrevilla Perea -- 2 How to be universal / Andrew Ginger -- 3 How to tell time / Geraldine Lawless -- 4 How to be religious under liberalism / Gregorio Alonso -- 5 How to prescribe a cure for the ills of art / Oscar Vázquez -- 6 How to know about right and wrong / Alison Sinclair -- 7 How to be a man / Collin McKinney -- 8 How to be a writer for the press - and how to write about it / Rhian Davies -- 9 How to be a cultural entrepreneur / Henriette Partzsch -- 10 How to be a man of letters / Raquel Sánchez -- 11 How to be an intellectual / Luis G. Martínez del Campo -- 12 How to live a colonial soldier’s life / Catherine Davies -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world.