Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras transatlánticas: una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas

Abstract

This book, From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century Through Transatlantic Letters: a Retrospective Look At Hispanists, is meant to present a multidisciplinary approach to research of Nineteenth and Twentieth century Spanish literature on three thematic axes. One thread that connects all of the sixteen chapters of this book is that they share a critical and methodological orientation linked to Transatlantic Studies and Hispanicism. The first section is entitled “Round Trips,” which explores the fluid routes between the European and American shores of the Atlantic, which facilitated the movement of people and the exchange of knowledge, since the Nineteenth century and continues to this day. In the opening section we highlight women and men who undertook these transatlantic trips, such as the scientist Inés de Echevarría, the philologist Rafael Lapesa, and the writers Rosa Montero and Paloma Díaz-Mas. In this book we also consider those who took one-way trips across the Atlantic, like the writer Mercedes Pinto, and the poet Eugénio de Castro. In every case, the scholars look beyond their horizons for answers to