Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere.The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms—political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media—with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications.

Product Description: Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period...read more

Product Description: La tesis de este estudio interdisciplinar es que la novela realista española de finales del siglo XIX no sólo documenta el proceso de formación nacional de la época, sino que constituye una parte integral de éste. Utilizando una amplia gama de textos de la teoría cultural, sobre todo anglosajona y francesa, establece una c...read more

Product Description: Since the Civil War, Spanish novelists have produced a noteworthy body of fiction. In this book, Jo Labanyi provides detailed textual analysis of six of the most important novels to have been written during this period: Martin-Santos' Tiempo de silencio, Benet's Volverás a Región, Marsé's Si te dicen que caí, Cela's San Camilo, 1936, Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicación del conde don Julián, and Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de J...read more

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Product Description: This new interdisciplinary study relates the late-nineteenth-century Spanish realist novel to contemporary debates in economics, politics, medicine and town planning. It argues that women function in the key texts of Spanish realism as ciphers of contemporary anxieties about modernization and, in particular, about its conversion of reality into representation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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