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Founders of the Future
In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization.
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape that, though prominent sites of intellectual exploration in their day, have received comparatively less scholarly attention until recently. Fringe Discourses brings together a group of essays that seeks to restore a sense of the epistemological richness of nineteenth-century Spain. By exploring the relationship ...
Creating Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic f...
Whole Faith
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Franciscan Principles -- 2. Imitation and Deviation -- 3. Travels through Catholic Europe -- 4. Toward the Lamb, with the Lamb -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Mujer y entretenimiento en el hogar victoriano
La omnipresencia del hogar victoriano en la producción cultural del siglo XIX es indiscutible. Así lo demuestra la monografía escrita en 2003 por Judith Flanders, ‘Inside the Victorian Home’, en la que la autora realiza un estudio pormenorizado de la presencia del hogar en el imaginario de la segunda mitad del siglo desde la consideración de la domesticidad como microcosmos de la sociedad decimonónica ideal. Tomando como base las teorías de Flanders, el objetivo de esta monografía es indagar en la representación sociocultural de lo doméstico desde la ruptura de la tradicional concepción de la sociedad como un espacio binario a partir de la teoría de las esferas. Para ello, se toma como punto de partida el hogar de la clase media decimonónica como espacio de confluencias, intersecciones y conexiones entre lo público y lo privado. Con estas consideraciones, la función pública de lo doméstico será estudiada desde varios prismas relacionados con la condición femenina y las posibilidades de las diferentes industrias del entretenimiento en el siglo XIX en Gran Bretaña.
Cultura científica y cultura tecnológica
El IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología se celebró en la Universidad de Salamanca entre los días 3 y 7 de julio de 2017 y estuvo organizado por el Instituto de Estudios de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. El germen de estos congresos fue la «Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía» que precisamente ese año concluyó con la publicación del último volumen de los proyectados. En su origen destacan los nombres de dos filósofos claves que han sido especialmente relevantes en el Congreso: Miguel Ángel Quintanilla, en honor del que se eligió tanto la sede como la temática y León Olivé, que falleció pocos meses antes. Desde el Congreso se les rindió ho...
Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new...
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature
This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are not commonly associated with each other, but whose voices overlap, allowing us to foreground their unconventionality, their relationships to each other, and their relation to modernity. The objective of this volume is to explore how the idea of "queerness" played an important role in the personal lives and social activism of these writers, as well as in the unconventional and nonconformist character...
