Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-391) and index.
Contents
On origins -- Adorning the feminine, or the language of fans -- Salon poets, the Becquer craze, and Romanticism -- Textual economies : the embellishment of credit -- Fabricating history -- The dream of negation -- The margins of home : modernist cursileria -- The culture of nostalgia, or the language of flowers -- Coda : the metaphor of culture in post-Franco Spain.
