Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization
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Description
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. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization.
ISBN
9781684483853
Publication Date
3-18-2022
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
City
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Keywords
Spain, social foundry, economy, technology, industry, nineteenth century
Disciplines
European History | Growth and Development | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Industrial Organization | Inequality and Stratification | Labor History | Spanish Literature
Comments
Part of the series: Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures