Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-460) and index.
Contents:
Kiosk literature as a geography of cultural objects / Susan Larson. Literary collections / Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa -- Between secrets and simulations : women writers in La novela de noche / Carmen M. Pujante Segura -- Backward modernity? The masculine lesbian in Spanish sicaliptic literature / Itziar Rodríguez de Rivera -- Literary medicine, medical literature : César Juarros and La novela de hoy / Ryan A. Davis -- Celebrity, sex, and mass readership : the case of Álvaro Retana / Noël Valis -- Virtual Álvaro Retana : recovery and fandom in the digital age / Jeffrey Zamostny -- Cinema literacy in cinema fan magazines and the novela cinematográfica / Eva Woods Peiró -- Technology, cosmopolitanism, and female sexuality in La novela semanal cinematográfica (1922-32) / Patricia Barrera Velasco -- La novela femenina : a collection by women writers in the 1920s / Ángela Ena Bordonada -- Getting away with wife murder : Article 438 in the press and popular fiction / Leslie Maxwell Kaiura -- Carmen de Burgos : teaching women of the modern age / Michelle M. Sharp -- Sports-themed kiosk novelettes and the Silver Age debate on tradition and modernity / Luis F. Cuesta -- Joaquín Belda's "tourist postcards" : the origin and foil of his novels (1924-31) / Manuel Martínez Arnaldos -- Reading and the street : an inventory of Madrid kiosks in 1911 / Edward Baker -- Modeling kiosk literary collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library / Dolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada -- Kiosk literature as a geography of cultural objects / Susan Larson.
Summary:
"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." -- Back cover.
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