Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 cursilería
  • The culture of nostalgia, or the language of flowers
  • Coda : the metaphor of culture in post-Franco Spain.