The Crisis of Institutionalized Literature in Spain

Ed. Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini
Studies the consequences of the institutionalization of literature in the nineteenth century, and advances the notion that literature as an institution is torn between the push for greater homogenization and a series of crises engendered by that very movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Course of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini

  1. The Crisis of a Literary Institution Seen from Within (On a Parallel Reception of Voltaire and Chateaubriand in Spain)

    Michael Nerlich

  2. The Collapse of Literature as Institutionalized Discourse: Espronceda’s El Diablo mundo

    Jenaro Talens

  3. The Space of Fiction and Reception of Don Quijote in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    Luiz Costa Lima

  4. The Power of the Word: Religious Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    Gwendolyn Barnes

  5. Galdós and the Generation of 1898

    Domingo Ynduráin

  6. Spanish Literature as a Historiographic Invention: The Case of the Generation of 1898

    Antonio Ramos-Gascón

  7. 1900–1910: New Literature, New Publics

    José-Carlos Mainer

  8. Catalonian Modernism and Cultural Nationalism

    Vicente Cacho Viu

  9. Literature and the Birth of a Nation: The Case of Chile

    René Jara

  10. Lyric Poetry at the Turn of the Century: Rubén Darío and the Sign of the Swan

    Iris Zavala

Appendix
The Mass Production of Theater in Nineteenth-Century Madrid
Nancy J. Membrez