Properties of Modernity

The breadth and depth of new knowledge that this project conveys are, in my view, unparalleled to date in 19th century studies.
--Harriet Turner, Director of International Affairs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

This book is the most original and groundbreaking contribution to its field in many decades, not simply because it provides wonderfully novel and complex readings, but especially because it could thoroughly reconfigure the field of Spanish romanticism, and its appreciation in a European context. Polemical and passionate, and bound to generate ardent controversy, this book will become an indispensable contribution to the understanding of Spanish romanticism.
-- Angel Loureiro, Professor of Spanish, Princeton University

"a thoughtful, original, and well-researched work...Some readers might be resistant to a theoretical framework informed by Foucault and post colonial discourse, yet the author is judicious in his approach and offers a convincing overview of a very complex theme."
--Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography

This is a brilliant book, which changes the paradigm for thinking about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish cultural production in general, and Spanish Romantic literature in particular.
--Iberoamericana