Borrowed words: translation, imitation, and the making of the nineteenth-century novel in Spain

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: The Controversial Literariness of the Misterios......Page 18
1. The Market Conditions in a Peripheral Literary Space......Page 34
The Progenitorship of the French Novel by the Spanish Publishers......Page 35
Marginality and Orphanhood of the Autochthonous Novel in Spain......Page 38
The Foreign Discourse on Spain: The Other of Civilized Europe......Page 46
The Uncertain Character of Modern Spain: Literary Decadence and the Hope for Redemption......Page 50
The Decentered Literary Consciousness: Latecomers and the New Cultural Order......Page 54
The Rise of the Novel in Spain: The “Little Poor Speakers” and Their Conspicuous Thefts......Page 57
Reclaiming the Image of Spain: The European Languages of Culture......Page 60
3. The Critical Reception of the French Novel......Page 64
The Progenitorship of the French Novel: The Exemplarity of Les mystères de Paris......Page 65
The Radicalization of a Politics of Reformation: The Condemnation of Sue’s Novel-Writing......Page 70
4. From Translation to Imitation......Page 78
The Naturalization of the Foreign Original: From Romance to History......Page 80
The Question of Authority over the Text: The Translator Against the Author......Page 89
Translation as Autochthonous Writing......Page 99
5. Imitation and the Autochthonous Novel: Los misterios de Barcelona......Page 102
From Romance to History......Page 103
The Mysteries of the City and Provincial Life......Page 121
Afterword......Page 136
Appendix: Plot Summary of Los misterios de Barcelona......Page 140
Notes......Page 144
Bibliography......Page 178
F......Page 192
M......Page 193
V......Page 194