Bøker i Campos Ibericos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures-serien

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain.

Explores the last six novels by Spains most honoured contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself - as Brown called MartIn Gaite, who was a dear friend - as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels.

In post-Franco Spain the artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels have received little critical attention. This book studies a selection of authors whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment by market forces or political influence.