This is an annotated critical edition of Articulos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano Jose de Larra (1809-37), presented with a critical introduction, study guide, glossary and chronology. Larra is still one of the most widely studied Spanish Romantic authors, and his satire of customs and manners in articles such as El castellano viejo, Vuelva usted manana and Nochebuena de 1836 offers an insight into nineteenth century Spanish culture, while probing issues that are still seen as defining of Spanish identity today. Articulos de costumbres, presented here with an extensive annotation that identifies references that have not been previously elucidated, is a central text in the Spanish canon, opening up questions about modern Spain and issues such as political revolution, class identities, social change and the inclusion of Spain within European modernity. -- .

Versiones literarias de los tormentos inquisitoriales A pesar de que nuestro conocimiento cientifico sobre el Santo Oficio es cada vez mas completo, la mera referencia a la Inquisicion espanola trae a la mente una serie de connotaciones e imagenes que le deben mas al arte, la liura y la polemica politica que a la historiografia. Este libro plantea el estudio de la Inquisicion como tema literario en el periodo comprendido entre 1789-1848, fundamental en la creacion de una idea moderna del Santo Oficio. La evolucion del tema literario inquisitorial en Espana durante dicho periodo nos ayuda a comprender nuestra propia concepcion contemporanea de la Inquisicion a traves de la coherencia de las convenciones literarias con lae fue representada en los textos. Sin embargo, tambien nos proporciona valiosa informacion sobre el primer liberalismo y su proyeccion literaria. Desde la literatura afrancesada al teatro de Martinez de la Rosa y los historiadores de la decada de 1840, este libro estudia la obra de escritores como Luis Gutierrez, Clararrosa, Antonio Puigblanch, Valentin de Llanos, Eugenio de Ochoa, Gil y Zarate, Eugenio de Tapia, y otros que ofrecieron su versiolos tormentos inquisitoriales al publico antes de que la historiografia inquisitorial desvelara sus misterios. DANIEL MUNOZ SEMPERE es profesor titular de literatura espanola, Kings's College, Londres.

At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic "challenge" to America and a Muslim "challenge" to European societies, and in the context of the War on Terror and migration panics, evocations of al-Andalus - medieval Iberia under Islamic rule - have gained new and hotly polemic topicality, championed and contested as either exemplary models or hoodwinking myths. The essays in this volume explore how al-Andalus has been transformed into a "travelling concept": that is, a place in time that has transcended its original geographic and historical location to become a figure of thought with global reach. They show how Iberia's medieval past, where Islam, Judaism and Christianity co-existed in complex, paradoxical and productive ways, has offered individuals and communities in multiple periods and places a means of engaging critically and imaginatively with questions of religious pluralism, orientalism and colonialism, exile and migration, intercultural contact and national identity. Travelling in their turn from the medieval to the contemporary world, across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and covering literary, cultural and political studies, critical Muslim and Jewish studies, they illustrate the contemporary significance of the Middle Ages as a site for collaborative interdisciplinary thinking.