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Abstract
The so-called “Silver Age” of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility, and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of short, often pocket-sized books sold in urban kiosks at low prices. These series published a wide range of literature in a variety of genres and formats, but their role as disseminators of erotic and anarchist fiction led them to be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date, examining the kiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, visuality, celebrity, gender and sexuality, and the digital humanities.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Illustrations | xi | ||
| Note on Translations | xv | ||
| Acknowledgments | xix | ||
| Introduction: Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Literary Collections | 29 | ||
| Chapter 2: Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de Noche | 53 | ||
| Chapter 3: Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic Literature | 77 | ||
| Chapter 4: Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy | 99 | ||
| Chapter 5: Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro Retana | 127 | ||
| Chapter 6: Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age | 153 | ||
| Chapter 7: Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela Cinematográfica | 175 | ||
| Color Section | 207 | ||
| Chapter 8: Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32) | 223 | ||
| Chapter 9: La Novela Femenina: A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920s | 255 | ||
| Chapter 10: Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular Fiction | 285 | ||
| Chapter 11: Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern Age | 311 | ||
| Chapter 12: Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and Modernity | 329 | ||
| Chapter 13: Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31) | 353 | ||
| Chapter 14: Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911 | 381 | ||
| Chapter 15: Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library | 397 | ||
| Conclusion: Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural Objects | 419 | ||
| Works Cited | 429 | ||
| Contributors | 461 | ||
| Index | 467 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |