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Masculine Figures - Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover)
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Masculine Figures - Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover)
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Based on years of archival research in Madrid and Barcelona, this
interdisciplinary study offers a fresh approach to understanding
how men visualized themselves and their place in a nation that
struggled to modernize after nearly a century of civil war,
colonial entanglement, and imperial loss. Masculine Figures is the
first study to provide a comprehensive overview of competing models
of masculinity in nineteenth-century Spain, and is particularly
novel in its treatment of Catalan texts and previously unstudied
evidence (e.g., department store catalogs, commercial
advertisements, fashion plates, and men's tailoring journals).
Fictional masculinity performs a symbolic role in representing and
negotiating the contradictions male novelists often encountered in
their attempts to professionalize not only as writers, but also as
businessmen, professors, lawyers, and politicians. Through specific
and recurring figures like the student, the priest, the
businessman, and the heir, male novelists represent an increasingly
middle-class world at odds with the values and virtues it inherited
from an imperial Spanish past, and those it imported from more
industrialized nations like England and France. The visual culture
of the time and place marks the material turn in middle-class
masculinity and sets the stage for discussions of race and
sexuality. Significant chapter sections on the used clothing trade
(in the Rastro flea market in Madrid, also called "Las AmEricas"
during the nineteenth century) and the "indiano businessman" (the
colonial returnee) discuss the racial implications of fashion of
the period-in the first example, through the racialized discourse
of contagion that hygienists used to frame the market. In the
second example, the book discusses the ways the Catalan indiano
"accessorizes" himself with racialized commodities like pocket
watches and tobacco and objectified/infantilized figures like Black
house servants and footmen.
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