Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire

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[ 267 ] Abrams, Meyer H., 35, 36 absolutism, 47–48 Adorno, Theodor, 89, 112, 242n2 affect, 91–95; in Saavedra, 113 Aguinaga, Blanco, 224–25n54 Alas, Leopoldo, 29 Alcalá Galiano, Antonio, 99, 112–13, 231n3 alienation, 49 in Cadalso, 71–78 compassion versus, 93–94 despair and, 179–80 in Larra, 147–48, 150–52, 179–80, 198–200 socioeconomic, 78–80 allegory, 200–201 All Souls’ Day, 168 anagnorisis, 119 Ancien Régime, 46, 47 Apologia (William of Orange), 13 Aristotle, 77, 104–5 art, novelty and, 233n14 Ayacucho, Battle of, 124 Ayguals de Izco, Wenceslao, 110 Balfour, Sebastian, 225n59 Barca, Calderón de la, 22 baroque, the, 68–71, 232n11 Barthes, Roland, 39 Bataillon, Marcel, 218n19 Battle of Ayacucho, 124 Baudelaire, Charles, 172–73, 203–4, 230n18, 232n7 Bazán, Emilia Pardo, 29 Benjamin, Walter, 35, 172, 230n18 Black Legend, 13–15, 219n24 Blanco, Alda, 234n23 Bloom, Harold, 35 Böhl von Faber, Nicholas, 22, 29, 47 border thinking, 216n11 Bourdieu, Pierre, 95–96 bourgeois revolution, 198–202 Braden, Gorden, 68 Bretón de los Herreros, Manuel, 109 Brevíssima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (Casas), 13 Bruja de Madrid, La (Ayguals de Izco), 110 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 21 Burdiel, Isabel, 48 “Búsqueda del presente, La” (Paz), 1–2 Butler, Judith, 65, 83–84 Cadalso, José, 53–98, 111 capitalism, self-interest and, 78–87. See also commodification Carlist movement, 231n1 Carnero, Guillermo, 33 Carr, Raymond, 43 Cartas marruecas (Cadalso), 54, 86 Cascardi, Anthony, 67, 216n10 Cernuda, Luis, 36 Index [ 26 ] ProPerties of Modernity Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 28, 93–94, 96 Charles III, 234n19 Christianity, equality in, 94–95. See also religion; secularization Cienfuegos, Nicasio Alvarez, 143–44 civic virtue, 77 “Civilization and Its Discontents” (Freud), 113–14 civilization vs. nature, 131–32 Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion (Weber), 7 Comentarios reales de los Incas (Garcilaso), 101 “Commitment” (Adorno), 242n2 commodification consciousness and, 179 desire and power in, 190–93 of rationality, 87–91 of religion, 186–88 secularization and, 146–50, 152 of writing, 188 compassion, 91–92, 91–95 conscience, 142 consciousness in Cadalso, 58–59 commodification and, 179 Construyendo la modernidad: la cultura española en el tiempo de los novatores (Magallón), 225–26n60 consumption, in Larra, 186–88 Cortés, Cayetano, 194 costumbrista, 114–19, 136–38, 240n23 in Larra, 171–73 narrative structure of, 183–84 creativity, 165–66 Critique of Judgement (Kant), 92–93 Critique of Political Economy (Marx), 81 Cromwell, Oliver, 14 cultural supremacy, 205–6, 240n22 Culture and Imperialism (Said), 26–27, 218n20 Curso de economía política (Flórez Estrada), 162–64 death of heroism, 150–53 Larra’s representation of, 142–43, 165–66, 168–80 living, 168–80, 178–80 narrative and, 139–41 suicide, 66, 122–23, 139–41 of the transcendent, 154–55 decolonization, 128–30 de las Casas, Bartolomé, 13, 94, 132 del Río, Angel, 31–32 Del Vecchio, Eugene, 181 De Man, Paul, 35 depression, 241n27 desire, in Larra, 190–93 despair, 178–80 destiny freedom and equality vs., 134–38 in Saavedra, 121–23, 134–38 “Día de Difuntos de 1836, El” (Larra), 142, 168–80 city-as-graveyard in, 171–72, 173–76 flaneur of the dead in, 171–73 on history, 174–80 liberty as death in, 170–71 living death in, 178–80 on modernity, 174–80 secularization in, 170–71 Spanish difference in, 174–80 Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer, Adorno), 89, 112 Dialoghi de amore (Hebreo), 101 Diccionario de autoridades, 79 dieciochista research, 43–44 discontinuity, 2 Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The (Rousseau), 93 disinterested social engagement, 86 Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino (Saavedra), 99–138 affect in, 113 Aristotelian unities and, 104–5 collective life in, 114–19 index [ 269 ] on colonialism, 123–34, 124–34 colonialism and, 103–4 costumbrista in, 114–19, 136–38 death of American possibility in, 125–30 destiny in, 121–23, 127–28 on freedom and equality, 134–38 on modernity, 123–34 nature vs. civilization in, 131–34 the other in, 118–19 poetry in, 106–8, 119–22 poetry/prose alternation in, 104–6, 112–13, 122 possibility in, 112–23, 120–22 prose in, 108–11, 114–19, 233n13 race in, 128 repetition in, 116–17 on slavery, 136–38 social critique in, 134–38 social status in, 119–20, 121–23, 122...