Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526144362)

Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. Rather than shifting the loci of modernity from Paris or London to Madrid, this book decentres the concept and explains the modern experience as part of a more fluid, global phenomenon. Meanings of the modern were not only dictated by linguistic authorities and urban technocrats; they were discussed, lived, and constructed on a daily basis. Cultural actors and audiences displayed an acute awareness of what being modern entailed and explored the links between the local and the global, two concepts and contexts that were being conceived and perceived as inseparable.

Author: Vanesa Rodr?uez-Galindo
ISBN-10: 1526144360
ISBN-13: 9781526144362
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d