Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image

by Joan Ramon Resina

Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Barcelona has striven to sustain an image of modernity that distinguishes itself within Spain. Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity traces the development of that image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. It begins with Barcelona's "coming of age" in the 1888 Universal Exposition and focuses on the first major narrative work of modern Catalan literature, La...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758328
• ISBN13: 9780804758321
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"