The manner in which a play is published often says as much about the culture that it comes from as the play itself. Using the example of nineteenth-century Spanish theatre, The Stages of Property argues that there is a great deal one can learn about a nation by examining its publication standards.
Lisa Surwillo discusses the ways in which notions of intellectual property transformed Spain's theatre - its agents, performance practices, and reception - over a period of fifty years, from 1830 to 1880. For three centuries, theatre had been the cultural arm of the monarchy. After the...
The manner in which a play is published often says as much about the culture that it comes from as the play itself. Using the example of nineteenth...
Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations. Nearly a third of the royal income came from Cuban sugar, and these profits underwrote Spain's modernization even as they damaged its...
Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations ...
This book analyzes literary works from the nineteenth-century that engaged with Spain's active participation in the outlawed transatlantic slave trade.
This book analyzes literary works from the nineteenth-century that engaged with Spain's active participation in the outlawed transatlantic slave trade...
