Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. On Origins 31
7. 2. Adorning the Feminine, or the Language of Fans 77
8. 3. Salon Poets, the Bécquer Craze, and Romanticism 118
9. 4. Textual Economies: The Embellishment of Credit 139
10. 5. Fabricating History 179
11. 6. The Dream of Negation 202
12. 7. The Margins of Home: Modernist Cursilería 224
13. 8. The Culture of Nostalgia, or the Language of Flowers 244
14. 9. Coda: The Metaphor of Culture in Post-Franco Spain 277
15. Appendix 303
16. Notes 305
17. Bibliography 353
18. Index 393