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Cultivating the city :Public landscapes and middle-class culture in Madrid, 1833--1890 (Spain)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultivating the city :
Reminder of title:	Public landscapes and middle-class culture in Madrid, 1833--1890 (Spain)
Author:	Frost, Daniel Adam.
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Bradley S. Epps.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1802.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3131842
ISBN:	049679082X

Cultivating the city :Public landscapes and middle-class culture in Madrid, 1833--1890 (Spain)
Frost, Daniel Adam.

Cultivating the city :Public landscapes and middle-class culture in Madrid, 1833--1890 (Spain) [electronic resource] - 187 p.

Adviser: Bradley S. Epps.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

My readings of a range of primary sources entail a wider exploration of how public landscapes figure in ideas of the "modern" articulated both by nineteenth-century writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde and by contemporary theorists such as Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, Jurgen Habermas, and Guy Debord. Contextualizing theory within close textual analysis, I argue that gardens and garden imagery trouble the distinction not only between nature and artifice, but also between reality and representation in general, and are thus crucial to understanding realism and the process of modernization in Spain.

ISBN: 049679082XSubjects--Topical Terms:

212836
Literature, Romance.

Cultivating the city :Public landscapes and middle-class culture in Madrid, 1833--1890 (Spain)
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520 # $a This thesis investigates how gardens and public landscapes represent, even cultivate, the moral, social, and aesthetic ideals of the developing middle class in nineteenth-century Spain. It explores the intersections between a burgeoning economy of consumption and the representation of landscapes such as parks, boulevards and outlying ("exurban") lands in works by Mariano Jose de Larra, Ramon de Mesonero Romanos, Armando Palacio Valdes, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Benito Perez Galdos, and others for whom Madrid's place in "modern" Europe is critically at issue. While I focus on representations of the Spanish capital, I also explore its relations to the surrounding countryside, to Paris, London and other cities. To support my analysis of literary texts, I draw on the writings of reformers such as Angel Fernandez de los Rios, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, and Mesonero Romanos himself, as well as journalists, municipal officials and economists of the time, whose works help frame ongoing debates on the city and its nature.
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