Putting it About
Social Rights and Wrongs in Spain in the Long Nineteenth Century

Alison Sinclair

Selected Essays 3

Legenda

23 September 2019  •  360pp

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Putting it About is a collection of essays focused on popular culture in Spain in the long nineteenth century, with emphasis on two aspects: the nature of popular thinking about issues of right and wrong, retribution, and right and wrong behaviour, and the way that such thought is communicated to its various publics. Featuring figures such as the bandit and the fallen woman, and touching on issues of class and seemly behaviour, the first six essays draw on a rich collection of pliegos sueltos of the period and examine how they can be read in order to see a popular view of right and wrong, with emphasis on heroism, power, justice, but also with an eye to humour and subversion. The following three examine structures of restraint that relate to popular and canonical literature, and competition for control of mind and body. The final four essays foreground more sharply issues of choice relating to wrongdoing and rightdoing.

Alison Sinclair, who retired in 2014, was Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Clare College. She specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Peninsular literature, culture and intellectual history, covering a broad spectrum of authors and topics, and with an ongoing interest in questions of popular culture and its transmission.

Reviews:

  • ‘Noteworthy not only for its rich and diverse topics, but also for its clear organization and unity. Its three parts complement each other to form a cohesive, thought- provoking volume. Ultimately, this book offers readers a point of access to the superb scholarship Sinclair is known for in the profession, and it will undoubtedly prove to be an excellent resource for students, scholars and researchers for years to come.’ — Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 97.9, October 2020, 1553-1554 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-x
Author’s Note
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xi-xii
Acknowledgements
A.S.
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xiii-xiv
List of Illustrations
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1-14
Introduction
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17-26
Chapter 1 Thinking in Pictures: Wrongdoers and Their Re-Formulation
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27-39
Chapter 2 Popular Faces of Crime in Spain
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40-58
Chapter 3 Let’s Blame the Maid: Stories of Exemplarity and Blame in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Popular Literature
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59-81
Chapter 4 Tales of Two Disgraced Women: Stereotypes of Blame in Spanish Popular Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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82-98
Chapter 5 the Ambiguities of Retribution
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101-110
Chapter 6 the First Fragment of El Ruedo Ibérico?
Alison Sinclair
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111-126
Chapter 7 Nineteenth-Century Popular Literature As A Source of Linguistic Enrichment in Valle-Inclán’s Ruedo Ibérico
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127-139
Chapter 8 the Regional Novel: Evolution and Variation
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140-157
Chapter 9 ‘Though I Speak With the Tongues of Men and of Angels…’: Rhetorical Practices in Nineteenth-Century Religious and Medical Discourse
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158-169
Chapter 10 How Do We Get Our Pleasure? Literature and the Limits of Experience in Spanish Nineteenth-Century Culture
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170-184
Chapter 11 Errant Strands and Loose Ends: Subjugation and (dis)closure in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel
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187-202
Chapter 12 Avant-Garde Theatre and the Return To Dionysos: Nietzsche, Jung, Valle-Inclán, Lorca, Artaud
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203-210
Chapter 13 Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels: A Representation of Alchemical Process
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211-221
Chapter 14 Elitism and the Cult of the Popular in Spain
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222-236
Chapter 15 Concepts of Tragedy in Unamuno and Kierkegaard
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237-248
Chapter 16 Authority Or Authenticity? the Battle of the Cultures at the Millennial Crossroads
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249-265
Chapter 17 Love, Again: Crisis and the Search For Consolation in the Revista De Occidente
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266-276
Chapter 18 Constructing the Essential Self: Rosa Chacel and the Discourse of the Feminine in the Public Sphere
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277-290
Chapter 19 Social Imaginaries: the Literature of Eugenics
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291-305
Chapter 20 Forging A Prodigy: Pepito Arriola
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306-336
Bibliography
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337-346
Index
Alison Sinclair
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Bibliography entry:

Sinclair, Alison, Putting it About: Social Rights and Wrongs in Spain in the Long Nineteenth Century, Selected Essays, 3 (Legenda, 2019)

First footnote reference: 35 Putting it About: Social Rights and Wrongs in Spain in the Long Nineteenth Century, alison Sinclair, Selected Essays, 3 (Legenda, 2019), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Sinclair, p. 47.

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Sinclair, Alison. 2019. Putting it About: Social Rights and Wrongs in Spain in the Long Nineteenth Century, Selected Essays, 3 (Legenda)

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